Sexual activities with girls of "immature" age have a traumatic effect on their lives and such crimes committed by a person in a position of trust and authority adversely affects a child`s perception to look at life positively, a special court said while sentencing a man to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting his minor daughter.

The man was held guilty of sections 354 (molestation) and 509 (words, gestures or acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.