

She said her father stayed in the room during the encounter, to calm her down and make sure she was OK and that the man was not too rough or violent. She said she thought he was a bouncer, and he told her he owned small black dog. In a quiet, and at times hesitant, voice, the girl told a police officer she had sex with a "chubby man" with a "round face" who came to her house on a Friday night. The father was sentenced to 22-and-a-half years' jail, while the others received terms ranging from three years to almost 13 years.

The other men, including the girl's father, pleaded guilty - meaning the girl's account of what happened, in her own words, has never been aired publicly before. Mr Impicciatore is the only one of the so-called paedophile ring to defend the charges against him and his trial is being heard by a judge sitting without a jury. The girl's interview was played in the District Court at the start of the trial of Alfred Impicciatore, who has pleaded not guilty to four child sex offences - alleged to have been committed when he went to the girl's northern suburbs home in March 2015. The 13-year-old made the comments in an interview in April 2015, as part of a police investigation into allegations she had been abused by her father and about half a dozen other men, in what came to be known as the "evil eight" paedophile ring. A young Perth girl told police her father stayed in the room while she was sexually abused by strangers because he was making sure she was "OK" and "calming her down."
