Adelaide grandfather jailed for 18 years for sexual offences against multiple female family members

An Adelaide man has been sentenced to 18 years’ jail for spinning a “tangled web” of “graphic and disturbing” paedophilia involving his daughter, stepdaughter and three step-grandchildren.

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The 55-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was arrested in June 2017, after his daughter alerted police.

He pleaded guilty in the District Court to maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under 14, gross indecency,…