Disturbing evidence heard in court told how the couple raped the four daughters up to nine times a day after the father ran out of money to pay prostitutes for threesomes
A sick couple have been put behind bars after turning their children into ‘sex slaves’ because they ran out out of money to pay prostitutes.
The father and mother, who are both in their forties, appeared in court in Tongeren, Belgium last month over the rape of the four daughters, who were aged between 12 and 21 at the time of the incidents. The man is the father of one of the children, while the other three are daughters of the mother.
The Belgian court heard how the dad had a sexual fixation with threesomes, and that the couple had previously paid prostitutes before running into financial difficulty. The man then began sexually abusing his children around January 2022, and evidence read out in court told how the mum would take the girls out of their bedrooms before taking them to her partner, where he would rape them up to nine times a day. The mother would also occasionally take part in the abuse.
The sexual abuse of the girls was planned by the parents in a ‘sex agenda’, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports. They were plied alcohol, muscle relaxants and lubricants when the rapes took place.
One of girls was told the sex would help her with her own relationships, while another was told that having sex with her stepdad would help her lose weight. They were also threatened with being kicked out of the family home if they refused their parents’ sexual advances. Text messages sent to the girls from the mother showed a campaign of manipulation, including telling them they would destroy the family if they didn’t take part.
On the night of December 30, 2023, the two youngest daughters escaped from the family home on their bicycles, and told authorities that they had been raped by their parents since January 2022, together with their two older sisters. The girls were found to have suffered injuries, abrasions, and sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia.
The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison, while the mother will spend 13 years behind bars. During sentencing, the judge likened the parents’ treatment of their children to “sex slaves”, and said: “The proven facts are extremely serious. The defendants used their daughters to satisfy the father’s sexual fantasies. At first they tried to do this by means of paid sex, but when they found that the financial resources were no longer available or that no one could be found, the defendants turned to the children within their own family and treated them as free sex slaves.”
