The 50-year-old will also be sentenced for raping two female passengers in his taxi on separate dates over the summer of 2022 later today.
Following an eight-day trial in May, Shorten was found guilty of raping the child on two separate occasions when she was either seven or eight-years-old.While considering an appropriate sentence for the father-of-seven, the judge said there was very little to mitigate his wrongdoing.
He said he abused the victim when he knew she was very vulnerable and he could not have cared less about the long-term pain and suffering he was inflicting on her. Later today, a different judge will sentence Shorten for raping two female passengers in the back of his taxi, and he will decide whether that sentence should run alongside or after the sentence he received today for abusing the young girl.
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