Trigger warning: This post contains issues of sexual abuse and may be triggering for some readers.
A Victorian man whose acts a judge described as ‘depraved’ has been jailed for 22 years for the repeated sexual abuse of his surrogate twin daughters.
The stomach-turning case has been in the courts for months with gruesome details released with every hearing.
The Herald Sun reported that on Thursday County Court Judge Susan Cohen said the offending against the twins was planned and began almost immediately after the girls arrived in Australia.
“As newborns they could not have been more vulnerable… it could hardly be more morally (repugnant),” Judge Cohen said.
The 49-year-old man paid $44,000 to have twin girls conceived in Asia after he and his wife suffered difficulties conceiving.
The abuse was said to have begun when the girls were only 27 days old and continued for seven months.
The man would film the acts before sharing them with other paedophiles over the internet.
It was said the man used the online alias “Candy” when sharing how he drugged the children before sexually abusing them.