An Australian court today sentenced a man to 45 years in jail for repeatedly raping his daughter, who developed some 2,500 personalities as a result of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, between 1974 and 1981.

Jenny Haynes, daughter and victim of the pedophile, said at the exit of the courts that after this sentence she does not want to think about her father and abuser again, in statements to the local media.

'Symphony', 4 years old

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"I am excited that my dad has seen me and that he hears me ," Symphony, a 4-year-old girl, said with a big smile and enthusiasm, as Jenny Haynes stated in the trial in one of the personalities adopted.

The victim, who is now 49 years old, stressed that the judge recognized in the sentence the need and importance of ending the case to resume her own life.

Judge Sarah Hugget, from a district court in the city of Sydney, said in her ruling against Richard Haynes, 74, that the aggressor will not be able to apply for parole until 2050 for crimes committed against his daughter.

From the age of 4 to 11, Jenny Haynes, the second of Richard Haynes' three children, was regularly raped by her father in a violent way, even tortured, while residing in Sydney.

In 1981, when he was eleven, his family moved back to the United Kingdom, where his parents later separated.

To keep her sexual abuse secret, her father threatened her - with the death of her mother or killing her pet - as well as belittling her or assuring her that he could do what he wanted with her, a psychological abuse that caused her mental problems.

As a consequence and to survive the pain and trauma caused by the abuses, Jenny Haynes, who gave up the anonymity that Australian authorities offer to victims of sexual crimes, suffers from a dissociative identity disorder through which she developed some 2,500 personalities.

"I am excited that my dad has seen me and hears me," Symphony, a 4-year-old girl, said with a big smile and enthusiasm that is one of the more than thirty personalities who testified against Richard Haynes, the media last May after giving testimony in court.

After the journalists requested Jenny's assistance, she referred to Symphony as the person who "saved our lives," although shortly after Muscles - another of the personalities - interrupts to call his father "bastard."

Richard Haynes pleaded guilty after his daughter's testimony, "not because he was shocked by the enormity of his actions, but because he could not handle what 'Symphony' said when he told what he did to him with explicit and heartbreaking details," Jenny recalled. Haynes during a 60-minute program interview on Channel 9.

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