The Suva High Court has found a 39-year-old Navua man guilty of raping his biological daughter when she was 13 years old in February last year.
The man has been convicted on two counts of rape.
The court heard that the man had told his two children not to go to school on the day of the incident.
On the morning of the incident, the girl's step-mother and two half siblings were not at home.
The girl and her brother had returned from an uncle's house and were preparing lunch when they saw their father approaching the house.
They told the court that their father gave them $15 and told them not to go to school that day.
This is when he raped her twice.
Following the incident, she said she did not tell her brother immediately because she was scared and crying.
She said she was afraid the man would do something to her or her brother.
She said the man had told her not to tell anyone, promising that he had registered land for them worth $4,000.
She did not heed this threat and went to her paternal grandmother and disclosed the incident.
The sentencing hearing is tomorrow in the Suva High Court.
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