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Man who kept daughter in basement for 24 years ‘no longer a danger’ after 15 years, says lawyer

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A man who held his daughter captive for 24 years from the ages of 18 to 42, raping her 3,000 times and fathering seven children with her could be transferred from a unit for the criminally insane to prison where he would be eligible to apply for release.

The 88-year-old man, but who now has a new name, was sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment in the special unit.

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