Police first learned about the alleged abuse in 2005, when M first came forward, but could not act because she did not want to co-operate after her father threatened violence against her mother and siblings.
The allegations first emerged in a news report that said authorities had failed to investigate after being warned of the abuse years earlier.
[3] During the years of abuse, M gave birth to four of her father's children, each in a major hospital in the state capital Melbourne.
RSJ was charged with 83 sexual abuse offences by police in June 2008 after DNA tests showed he was the father of M's surviving sons, LJ, CJ and NR.
During his sentencing in February 2010,[4] County Court Judge Susan Pullen said: "You defiled your daughter over many years on a regular basis.