i think 'sleepwalking' is a substitute for 'drunk' in this case
He was accused of raping the girl when she woke him up to open the door to the toilet.
He said that he came to his senses when his daughter began to scream: 'Papa it's me. It's me.'
The man told a court in Mons: 'This is a sexual version of sleepwalking. I was deeply ashamed when I found out what was happening.'
The divorced man, 30, had been drinking with his friends before going to bed in the same room as his daughter.
The girl told her grandmother what had happened and she reported her father to the police.
In court defence lawyer Yves Degratie said: 'My client has had sleep problems for a long time. When he was living with the girl's mother he often had sex with her in his sleep.
'He could not remember what happened with his daughter the next day. He is deeply sorry. But he could do nothing about it. He was powerless.'
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