SINGAPORE, April 3 -- A 55-year-old man was sentenced to 65 months and four weeks in jail for sexually abusing his daughter.

According to The Straits Times (ST), the man shared a bedroom with the girl, then 11-year-old, together with his wife and another daughter.

Due to his age, he was exempt from caning, and a gag order protects his daughter's identity by withholding his name.

It was reported that the abuse lasted for three years until she confided in her foster parents, who then reported it to the authorities.

Court proceedings revealed that the girl was too frightened to resist as she had previously seen her father hit her mother. The family slept together in a shared bedroom.

The abuse began between 2018 and 2019, with the man w...