A 50-year-old man who hid out in Spain for three years avoiding charges for multiple sex offences against his stepdaughter is now in Canberra’s jail, after the ACT Magistrates Court refused to send him to a mental health facility.
The man is charged with incest, rape, multiple acts of indecency, and capturing and controlling child abuse material, after police allegedly found 24,000 images on a camera hidden in the smoke detector in the child’s room.