An emotional mother read into evidence in the Blue Downs Regional Court a gut-wrenching letter her 13-year-old daughter wrote to her molester. The Brackenfell mother, whose identity is being withheld to protect her daughter, testified in aggravation of sentence in the multiple rape and sexual assault case against a Brackenfell father. The man cannot be named because his two daughters were two of the five victims he confessed to raping and touching inappropriately. The father, 41, has pleaded guilty to eight charges of sexual assault, four of rape and over 400 counts of illegal possession of child pornography. The man was arrested at his home on May 15 after an 11-year-old girl, who visited his daughters, told her mother he had raped her. Other victims, aged 10, 11, 12 and 13, confirmed to authorities he had either penetrated them with his finger or fondled their private parts between 2009 and 2011. A total of 425 explicit photographs of children were found on the man’s laptop. On Thursday, a girl’s mother read the letter to magistrate Johan Beyers: “Hi, I am supposed to tell you how (the man) molested me. I felt dirty and violated, and when I told my best friend (one of his daughters), she said he (had) done it to her her whole life. When he done (sic) it to me again, I ignored it. He made us do gross things and smoke weed. I was a slut. But that’s over now, it’s wrong what he (has) done and he shouldn’t get away with it.” The girl’s mother said she felt responsible for what had happened to her daughter because she had trusted the man. “As a mother I feel I let my child down. She was a free-spirited little girl, but now she is struggling to find friends.” Beyers said he would postpone sentencing because it was of utmost importance that he obtained a social worker’s report on the children. The man’s children are in a place of safety. He will remain in Pollsmoor Prison until his next scheduled appearance on March 13.