Moe incest case
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The Moe incest case emerged in February 2007 when a woman, identified only as M for legal reasons, reported to Victoria Police in the Australian town of Moe, Victoria that her 63-year-old father, RSJ, had raped her,[1][2] physically abused her, and kept her prisoner in her own home between 1977 and 2005.
Police first learned about the alleged abuse in 2005, when M first came forward, but could not act because she did not want to co-operate after her father threatened violence against her mother and siblings.
The J family had been known to authorities for more than 30 years at the time the abuse came to light; three of RSJ's six children with his wife had died and others have spent time in state care. The allegations first emerged in a news report that said authorities had failed to investigate after being warned of the abuse years earlier.[3]
During the years of abuse, M gave birth to four of her father's children, each in a major hospital in the state capital Melbourne. One child, the only girl, died from severe brain and respiratory developmental problems at eleven weeks old, two of the surviving boys are seriously intellectually disabled, and the third has a major speech impediment and social interaction problems. None of the children had a father listed on their birth certificate, raising concerns about why questions were not asked at the time. The victim's mother was allegedly unaware of any abuse, despite sharing a house with her daughter, husband, and grandchildren until 2005.