娘に性暴力、逆転有罪　「抵抗不能」認める―父に懲役１０年・名古屋高裁

　１９歳だった実の娘に性的暴行を加えたとして、準強制性交等罪に問われた父親の被告（５０）の控訴審判決で、名古屋高裁の堀内満裁判長は１２日、無罪とした一審名古屋地裁岡崎支部判決を破棄し、一審の求刑通り懲役１０年を言い渡した。
　準強制性交等罪の要件である、被害者が身体的、心理的に抵抗が著しく困難な状態だったかどうかが争われた。
　堀内裁判長は、娘が中学２年の頃から、被告に性的虐待を繰り返され、「抵抗する意思・意欲を奪われ、要求を拒否することが著しく困難な心理状態だった」と認定。「強く抵抗できない状態につけ込んだ卑劣な犯行。娘の肉体的、精神的苦痛は、加害者が実の父親であることからも極めて甚大かつ深刻」と被告を指弾した。
　一審は、娘が過去に性行為を拒んだこともあったことなどから、「抵抗不能と断定するには合理的疑いが残る」と判断。しかし、堀内裁判長は「抵抗不能の成立範囲を理由なく厳しく解釈し、事実誤認がある」と述べた。（2020/03/12-19:09）

A Japanese high court on Thursday overturned a lower court's ruling that found a man not guilty of raping his daughter when she was 19 years old.
   Reversing the ruling by a Nagoya District Court branch, Nagoya High Court sentenced the man, 50, to a prison term of 10 years, as demanded by public prosecutors during the trial at the district court branch, for the crime of quasi-forcible intercourse.
   The focal point was whether it was very difficult for the victim to physically or psychologically resist the father, a condition constituting the crime in the case.
   The daughter was "deprived of her will to resist the father and was in a psychological state where it was extremely difficult to reject his demands," after she had continued to be sexually abused by him since she was a junior high school second-grader, Presiding Judge Mitsuru Horiuchi said.
   "The man committed the despicable crime by taking advantage of her condition," the judge said, adding, "The physical and psychological pain she suffered is extremely severe and serious as the perpetrator is her real father."