A vile paedophile who raped his Thai girlfriend's two-year-old daughter dozens of times should have his sentence reduced because he suffered 'torture' the last time he was in prison, his lawyers argue.
Sentencing for the Queensland child rapist Jason Daron Mizner has been delayed because the judge was so shaken by video of the assaults she needed a break to ensure a fair sentence.
Mizner has already pleaded guilty to more than 60 child sex offences relating to a two-year-old girl, from the early 2000s, including more than 30 counts of rape and videotaping the assaults.
The prosecution wants the 44-year-old jailed for life.
But Mizner's lawyers argued his years in prison in Thailand for a separate sexual assault of another young child there should be taken into account, because of the abuse he suffered at the hands of other inmates while incarcerated.
'He received beatings and other torture, partly in relation to (the Australian) offending,' Mizner's lawyer said.
'The Australian Federal Police gave evidence at the (Thai) hearing about the Australian offending, so it's not much of a stretch that inmates in Thailand would have known.'