The Ulsan District Court Sunday ordered a 45-year-old man to be put behind bars for 10 years and placed under monitoring for an additional five for habitually raping his teenage daughter.
His criminal record will be available for public view for five years. The court said that the father had inflicted irreparable damage on his daughter by raping her over a period of two years.
"It is imperative to keep the father away from the victim for as long as possible," the court said in its ruling.
The convict was charged with raping his teenage daughter seven times in 2007.
The court is getting tough with rapes of children after public outcry last year over what the public perceived a lenient ruling against a drunken man kidnapping and raping an elementary school girl. Recently, the Supreme Court laid out guidelines calling for tougher sentences on child rapists.
무디스, 스페인·伊·포르투갈 신용등급 강등
