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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Hannah Neale

Judge notes rapist's 'cynical exercise in self ingratiation'

A woman who was raped by her uncle when she was a child has urged other sexual assault survivors to speak up and tell their stories to "create actual concrete change for our daughters and sons".

Her rapist, Antonius van de Zandt, is set to spend the next six months behind bars after the ACT Supreme Court found the man's claims of remorse were a "cynical exercise in self ingratiation".

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