The victim spoke to police in 2005 but didn't press charges because she was scared of her father.

The paper said the birth certificates of the victim's four children didn't record the name of the father and that all suffered health problems that could be related to incest.

The 80 sex-abuse charges were laid in February after the victim spoke to police a second time.

When questioned, the man, in his 60s, denied raping his daughter. He was charged after DNA tests showed he was the father of her children.

The victim may testify in November when the case comes to court.

'People reading her story in the Herald Sun will be shocked and revolted to find the horrendous crimes they heard about in other countries may have happened here,' the paper editorialised.

'Crimes such as the thousands of rapes committed by Josef Fritzl against the daughter he imprisoned for 24 years in his house in Austria and where she gave birth to six (sic) children.'