A north Brisbane couple have been sentenced to jail this afternoon, after a court heard about how they made a pregnancy pact to inseminate their 15-year-old daughter after bearing two biological children with congenital diseases.
The 35-year-old stepfather received an eight-year prison term. He already has served 164 days in pre-sentence custody.
The girl's 39-year-old mother was sentenced to six months' jail and three months' probation.
The couple, who cannot be identified under Queensland law, penned a handwritten "contract" with the girl, before the man began having daily sex with her over two-and-a-half months in late 2006.
The couple also tried to inject her with the man's sperm in a bid to conceive, Brisbane's District Court heard.
The pair both pleaded guilty to one count each of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child.
Lawyers say the case is the first of its type in Queensland.
Prosecutors told the court the man had begun sexually abusing the girl from the age of 12.
Three years later, the court heard the man and his wife, the girl's mother, struck a deal with the then-15-year-old that she would bear them a child because their two other biological children had been born with genetic defects.
They wrote the pact in a notebook and tried for several weeks to impregnate the girl using the man's sperm, which he had masturbated into a syringe.
When the method failed, however, prosecutors said the man began having sexual intercourse with his stepdaughter up to three times a day.
The couple were eventually arrested in August 2006 after the girl confided in the family of a friend who encouraged her to go to the police.
As he was being arrested, the man indignantly declared: "Did you not see the f---ing contract?"
He was described in court this morning by his own defence barrister as "disgusting" and "despicable".
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