A NORTHWEST couple convicted of abusing and prostituting their three daughters for as little as R5 over a five-year period will be sentenced in the Pretoria Regional Court on October 30. The 41-year-old woman and the girls’ 31-year-old stepfather were convicted in August of abusing the 19-year-old and 16-year-old daughters, and of being party to the rape of the 16-year-old girl by the stepfather’s brother. The stepfather was also convicted of raping and indecently assaulting the 12-year-old daughter, of assaulting and raping the 16-year-old girl, and of assaulting the 19-year-old daughter. The mother was found guilty of being party to the rape of her 16-year-old girl by 12 men, hiring the 19-year-old daughter as a prostitute to eight men, and assaulting and abusing the 12-year-old daughter. She was also convicted of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm for beating her eldest daughter with a car’s exhaust pipe.