How can a father be having an intimate affair with his 3-year-old daughter? This was the horrible story of Henry Vincent Bennett, a 28-year-old father who is now facing up to 50 years in jail. How can a father give a flimsy statement that he mistook his 3-year-old daughter for a 24-year-old woman?
An American man has been convicted of incest with his three-year-old daughter after bizarrely claiming he believed the child was his 24-year-old wife.
It took a West Virginia jury less than 30 minutes to decide Henry Vincent Bennett, 26, was guilty of first-degree sexual assault, along with other charges.
The question on the lips of everyone was how can a father do such a thing to his daughter, not just once but twice.
Bennett originally denied having sexually assaulted his young daughter when he was first taken into custody in February 2019. After the three-year-old girl alerted her mother who then alerted child safety professionals that her daughter had been a victim of Bennett's horrific actions, the police apprehended him.
The child delivered a harrowing account of the abuse when she made a Play-Doh penis, explaining it was her father’s “butt”, and that Bennett had placed his “butt on her butt”, child advocacy worker Cindy Lambert testified.
While he eventually admitted to sexually assaulting the child twice, he said it was an accident on both occasions.
In one instance, Bennett said he “accidentally” placed a sex toy in his daughter’s buttocks.
He claimed there was another occasion where his wife was performing oral sex on him before getting up to go to the bathroom. At that point, Bennett said the three-year-old came into the room and started performing the sexual act without him realizing it was no longer his 84kg wife. He claimed he had his back on the bed and was facing the ceiling when his 3-year-old daughter entered the room and started giving him a blow job!!
When the prosecutor asked how it could have been a mistaken identity, Bennett said: “I was laying on my back... I thought it was April (his wife), and when I rolled over (the girl) yelled,” Bennett said.
The father was later sentenced to 50 years in prison while the mother April Bennett was sentenced to jail on the count of child neglect.
Kindly comment on what you think went wrong with this young family...
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