UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Former evangelical church minister is jailed for 15 years after subjecting family to shocking sexual abuse
By Paul Milligan
A former evangelical church minister who subjected his family to long term cruelty and sex abuse was jailed for 15 years today by a judge who called him ‘bullying and tyrannical.’
The 40-year-old had been convicted earlier this month of raping his wife and stepdaughter and being cruel to both his stepchildren between 1995 and 2010.
At one stage, early on in the man’s relationship with the mother and two children, social services were involved with the family – but did not detect what was going on.
Jailing the man at Gloucester Crown Court today Judge Jamie Tabor QC said that by the time the man married his wife he had already developed into ‘a controlling husband and stepfather.’
Judge Tabor said the man had behaved in a tyrannical manner to the wife and her son and daughter, who were very young when the relationship started in 1995.
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