BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge in Barbados has sentenced a man to just over six and a half years in prison after he admitted to sexually abusing his stepdaughter more than two decades ago.

Justice Christopher Birch said the man’s conduct was “systematic, degrading and humiliating” and that he had abandoned his fundamental duty to protect the child in his care.

“It cannot be denied that the now-convicted man, in this case, embarked on a course of action against the complainant that was systematic, degrading and humiliating.