A MAN involved in one of the most horrific cases of sexual abuse to come before the Tasmanian courts has had his sentence increased on appeal.
The Court of Appeal today added another three years to his jail term, describing the initial sentence as inadequate.
The 35-year-old man pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a young person under the age of 17 years, eight counts of producing child exploitation material and two counts of possessing child exploitation material and a jury found him guilty of three counts of rape.
The offences were committed between 2008 and 2001 when the victim was aged between 14 and 17. She was his stepdaughter.
He made video and audio recordings of the abuse and threatened the girl he would put the images on the internet if she reported him.
Justice David Porter sentenced the man to seven years in jail with a minimum term of four.
But in his decision on the Crown appeal, Chief Justice Ewan Crawford said the sentence was too lenient.
"Rapes on 21 different occasions alone demanded a much more severe sentence," he said.
"Their nature and circumstances cried out for a much longer term of imprisonment by way of general and personal deterrence, retribution and denunciation.
"The gross breach of trust by the respondent and the harm he caused the complainant also demanded a much more severe sentence."
He quashed the original sentence and ordered the man serve 12 years in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of seven years.
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