A 39-year-old man is facing the ACT Magistrates Court charged with 136 family violence offences involving 11 victims.
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.
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.
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