Two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years, were given a formal apology by child protection agencies on Wednesday for systemic failure.

The admission was made during the publication of an executive summary into a review of the case, which acknowledged the family concerned had had contact with 28 different public agencies and 100 members of staff over 35 years.

No one has been sacked or disciplined for the catalogue of errors, the multiple agencies involved said at a joint press conference in Derby where they lined up to apologise.

The 56-year-old father from Sheffield, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is serving a life sentence for repeatedly raping his daughters, whom he made pregnant a total of 18 times. He was jailed in 2008.

The man, whose crimes have been likened to those of the Austrian rapist Josef Fritzl, fathered seven children with the women, two of whom are severely disabled.

The review heard how he moved his family 67 times to keep his crimes secret.

In November, Sheffield Crown Court heard the abuse started when the women were aged between eight and 10.

If they refused their father's advances, they were badly beaten and sometimes held to the flames of a gas fire.

Sheffield and Lincolnshire's Safeguarding Children Boards apologised unreservedly for failing to help the two women, insisting lessons had been learned and systems changed.

"We want to apologise to the family at the heart of this case. It will be clear that we failed this family," said Sue Fiennes, independent chair of Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board.

"This report will not make comfortable reading for any of the organisations concerned with the family. We are all committed to working relentlessly to do all we can to minimise the risk of this happening again and indeed we have taken action."

At a joint press conference in Derby the numerous agencies involved say they were all to blame.

"No individual has been dismissed, or disciplined, or sacked. We failed this family because of an accumulation of acts that lead to a collective failure," said Chris Cook, Independent Chair of Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board.

"We are genuinely sorry. We should have protected you."

(Editing by Steve Addison/Keith Weir)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100310/tuk-uk-britain-rape-fa6b408.html

That's what I call a perverted sicko!

^^Speechless^^

Na end time signals.

awww shame. . . what a sick world we live in
the man should count himself lucky that his name is being withheld

The man, whose crimes have been likened to those of the Austrian rapist Josef Fritzl, fathered seven children with the women, two of whom are severely disabled.

i'm not surprised one bit that some of the kids have birth defects. . .that's what happens when children are born from incestuous relationships .

Mehn!!!!. . . . . .so humans like this still do exist. . . . . . .what a sad wicked world

I'm glad they didnt mention his name. God forbid that they did and someone goes to shoot the man. He needs to be alive, to suffer miserably. Poor kids, how difficult it must be to know your own father is your grandfather, and that you are the product of an incestuous relationship.

Ahh, that man deserves to have his p*nis sliced off with a blunt knife. He doesnt even deserve death.

Christ have mercy

GurusForum:

Na end time signals.

Exactly!

Just wondering how many daugthers are suffering the same fate in the hands of their fathers presently. . .but i think it starts with a drinking dad who beats and force himself on his wife at random occations,and later see no reason not to decend on the children cus he sees their mother in them. Its more dangerous for a girl child to live with a violent dad,cus there is greater tendency that they'll be abused;even male children are not spared in some cases by their violent dad or step dad,as the case may be.

If you check around very well, you may discover that
such evil has been there for a long time. It's just
that they made this one public.

When I read these the first question that came up was is this real
If it's real then father is a retarded person, what pleasure would a father derive from going to be with his own daughter

Make you help me ask that useless father. What pleasure is he deriving from such act?

GurusForum:

If you check around very well, you may discover that
such evil has been there for a long time. It's just
that they made this one public.

I agree, I guess thank God for the media but Incestuous relationships have been happening for centuries now. May God help these victims.

Hi EB, howdy

mama-gee:

That's what I call a perverted sicko!

Lol, Nice one from mama-gee.

chei! son of a donkey. . .I'll make him eat goat s. h. i. t.