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Hong Kong father who raped young daughter jailed for 15 years
- Defence counsel uses letter 10-year-old sent saying she loved her father as part of mitigation plea
- But judge dismisses claims and points to psychological report that says victim was disturbed by what happened
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A father who raped his daughter for two years after she turned eight has been jailed in Hong Kong for 15 years.
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On Thursday, counsel for the father argued in mitigation that the girl “did not suffer major trauma” and presented Mr Justice Patrick Li Hon-leung a letter she sent to him in prison, suggesting she still had a good relationship with him.
“I miss you very much,” she wrote in a letter received by prison staff on February 8 last year.
“Did you lose weight over there? When will you come back? I scored 70 in my Chinese dictation. Are you happy?”
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The letter, as seen by the Post, was decorated with small hearts inscribed with the words “love you” and a dot-to-dot drawing of what appeared to be a flower.

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