Incestuous father beaten up in jail

The Calgary man convicted of brutally sexually abusing his young daughter may have been the victim of jailhouse vigilante justice, his lawyer said Wednesday. Defence counsel Alias Sanders said her client, who can’t be named to protect his victim’s identity, has been assaulted three times while on remand. But Crown prosecutor Rosalind Greenwood said there’s nothing to indicate the attacks are related to the crimes for which the man has been convicted. “There’s no evidence before the court that that is the case,” Greenwood told Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Bruce Millar. “It is equally possible (the offender) isn’t getting along with the other inmates … maybe he’s beaking off.” But Sanders said regardless of the motivation for the attacks, two in the Calgary Remand Centre and one in Medicine Hat, the offender should get enhanced credit off his sentence for the conditions he’s had to endure. The father was convicted in January of eight charges, including incest and unlawful confinement, over his sexual abuse of his daughter between the ages of two and four.