US incest father sentenced to 109 years in prison

A US man who sexually exploited his daughter for more than two decades and fathered her three children has been sentenced to 109 years in prison, in an incident described as the most "heinous case of child abuse" in the country.

"I hope he suffers," said the woman, who has not been identified because she is a sexual abuse victim. "I want him to die in there in jail because that's what he did to me. He confined me," the 29-year old daughter said whose assault started when she was just 6 years old.

She said her 48-year-old father, a martial arts instructor, threatened to kill her if she told anyone and kept her a prisoner at home, monitoring her movements using surveillance cameras and delivering fierce beatings during paranoid rages.

On Friday the daughter sat silently in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as a judge sentenced her father Lindolfo Thibes to prison for 109 years to life in what police describe as the most heinous case of child abuse they had encountered.

As her father was led away in handcuffs, the woman wept quietly and embraced her younger brother, who she said was also a victim of beatings by their father, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.

DNA tests confirmed the daughter's account, proving that Thibes was both the father and grandfather of her three children. All girls, they are 4, 7 and 11.