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WARNING: Some of the details in this story may be disturbing.

Emotional victim impact statements were read into court Tuesday at the sentencing of a couple convicted of tying up, beating, and sexually assaulting their children during their upbringing.

It was all part of the sentencing hearing for a mother and father who were found guilty of a long string of charges in June.

In her statement, one daughter, who is now an adult, said, “My mom and dad were my first bullies my first abusers and the people I needed protection from.”

“The relentless physical, psychological, and sexual abuse I experienced and endured from my parents has given me complex PTSD, anxiety, and depression… I live in chronic pain,” she added.

“I still live in fear that they will come after me again,” another daughter said. “I never had an example of a good parent.”

A third daughter asked the court to put the couple away for a …

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