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Tue, 24 May, 2016 01:12:57 AM FTimes- STT Report, May 24  The convicted father and daughter along with their lawyer in The Turku Appellate Court. File Photo Lehtikuva. The Turku Appellate Court has significantly increased the convictions in a human trafficking case where a father and his daughter held a young woman captive.
The victim also gave birth to several children for her captors.
The court sentenced the 45-year-old man for, among other things, aggravated human trafficking and child abduction to five years and eight months imprisonment.
His 23-year-old daughter received four years in prison for her part in the aggravated human trafficking and other offences.
The appellate court considered that the suffering and actions inflicted on the victim for more than four years warranted more severe penalties than what the district court had sentenced. Additionally, the victim’s young age was taken into account for the judgment.
The Pirkanmaa District Court had sentenced the father to three years and ten months in prison and the daughter to two years and eight months. The original sentence had produced some bewilderment in a number of legal scholars.
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