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<postdate>2024-12-10 09:09:58</postdate>
<headline>Man faces 136 family violence charges</headline>
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<p><strong>A 39-year-old man is facing the ACT Magistrates Court charged with 136 family violence offences involving 11 victims.</strong></p>
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<p>Police allege these incidents occurred between 2002 and 2020, and the man committed physical and sexual violence offences against the victims in this time period.</p>
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<p>The man has been charged with offences including incest with a child under 10 years old, sexual assault in the second and third degree, sexual intercourse without consent, persistent sexual abuse of a child, act of indecency on a child under 10 years and on a young person under 16 years, reckless threat to kill, choking a person and rendering them insensible, burglary, possessing an offensive weapon with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault.</p>
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