Man goes on trial for raping daughter

A GERMAN man has gone on trial in Nuremberg on hundreds of counts of rape over allegations he assaulted his daughter for more than three decades and fathered three sons by her.

As the trial opened, Adolf B admitted to the court that he had frequent sex with his daughter, now 46, but said it was consensual.

But prosecutors say the 69-year-old, whose last name has not been released, beat his daughter and threatened her with a knife to force her to have sex with him, starting when she was 12 or 13.