AP New JerseyFather who raped daughter could get 35 years
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April 18, 2007, 4:19 PM EDT

WEST NEW YORK, N.J.(AP) _ A man who raped his teenage daughter repeatedly over several years and ordered her to throw the two newborn babies he fathered down an air shaft is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.

The 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated sexual assault and is expected to serve up to 35 years, said Mike D'Andrea, an assistant Hudson County prosecutor.

The Associated Press is not identifying the man in order to protect the identity of his daughter since she was the victim of a sex crime.

DNA tests showed the man fathered both children _ a girl, who died just after birth, and a boy, who survived _ with his daughter, who is now 20.

Officials say the man had a sexual relationship with is daughter beginning when she moved from El Salvador at age 13 in 2000, D'Andrea said. The defendant, who is also from El Salvador and is in this country illegally, could be deported back to that country after completing his sentence, authorities said.
The relationship was discovered after police found the second child, a baby born on Sept. 13, 2005, at the bottom of the air shaft, D'Andrea said. The boy suffered a fractured skull but survived after landing on a pile of trash and old cigarette packages which may have cushioned his fall.

When authorities returned to the scene as part of their investigation, they found the mummified remains of the first baby. That child was born in 2003, D'Andrea said.

The father ordered his daughter to throw the babies down the window, and threatened to kill her and her mother if she did not, D'Andrea said.

The daughter has also pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter and aggravated assault, and she faces a maximum of seven years in prison, he said.


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