So 10 years’ imprisonment for raping one’s three young vulnerable daughters is considered a just sentence. To cap it all, the father is nameless, supposedly to protect the daughters’ identity.

What a joke!

In a small island like ours, I am sure the whole of Cospicua and, subsequently, Malta knows who these three teenage sisters are. Not many families have three teenage sisters whose father has suddenly disappeared into thin air!

What about protecting the thousands of young girls when it is time to let this monster loose in a few years’ time?

Has this abominable man’s name been added to the Sex Offenders’ List or is it not permissible since this man is nameless?

Finally, what this sentence seems to tell fathers in the Maltese Islands is that if one has an uncontrollable urge to rape a woman, then raping a family member may be the answer. Apart from getting only an average of 3.3 years per rape in jail, their name would not even be publicised!