A local court sentenced a 40-year-old man to 10 years in prison on Thursday for sexually molesting his adopted niece for nearly eight years.
   
The Incheon District Court said the man, whose identity has been withheld, was found guilty of sexually assaulting his now 14-year-old niece in his southern Incheon home from 2006 to July 2013.
   
In addition to the jail sentence, the man was ordered to wear an electronic tracking anklet for 10 years following his imprisonment and will have his personal information posted on the Internet.
  
Court documents showed the man had lived with his niece since his older brother, the girl's father, filed for divorce in 2006. He formally adopted the child last year.
   
He was convicted of sexually assaulting the niece or coming close to doing so on seven different occasions. The court said he also beat the child when she resisted.
  
"The defendant had an obligation to look after the child as her uncle and primary caretaker, but instead he committed an unspeakable crime," the court said in a ruling. "The victim will likely be traumatized for life."
   
The court added that the man deserves heavy punishment for having repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and showing no remorse for what he has done. (Yonhap)