A DAD ignored five boys having sex with his nine-year-old daughter and repeatedly left her in the care of a suspected paedophile.

       The 64-year-old, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, brought up his two children alone after his wife died and allowed his young daughter to watch porn.

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       A dad did not stop his nine-year-old daughter having sex with multiple boys Credit: Alamy

       He took no action to stop the youngster from having sex with boys aged between eight and 15, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

       The dad - who cannot be named for legal reasons - also watched porn on his phone and didn't prevent the child from viewing it on a paired family iPad she used, prosecutor Mark Worsley told the court, reports GloucestershireLive.

       Then, for two months, he left her with a suspected paedophile living nearby daily, admitting to police the person "may have been a child molester".

       In July 2016, a boy who had sex with the girl three times when she was nine told his dad about it, who contacted their school and social services.

       The girl's dad admitted during a meeting with social workers that he hadn't spoken to his daughter about the liaisons, Mr Worsley said.

       He was given a warning, but he did not change his ways, the court heard, even after the Family Court made a children protection order later that year.

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       Cops arrested him in July 2017, and the girl told police she'd had sex nine times with five different boys.

       She also told officers of three other instances of sexual activity and that on occasions it was watched by others.

       The girl is now in foster care, but had a "complete lack of appreciation" of the normal privacy of sexual relationships, Mr Worsley said.

       Susan Cavender, defending the dad, said he was unaware of most incidents.

       "He has been quick to accept that his best was not good enough," she said.

       "His chief offence is lack of intervention."

       He pleaded guilty to a charge of neglecting or ill-treating a child in his care in a way that would cause her unnecessary suffering or injury when she was aged between nine and 10 in 2016/17, and was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years.

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