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'I couldn't imagine doing that to my child,' woman says of father sent to prison

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SALT LAKE CITY — Just before Robert Quentin Sprague was sentenced, his adult daughter, in a statement read by a victim advocate, told the court that her father is dead to her. "This was just the cherry on top of the sundae. We've always had issues," the daughter told KSL about her statement and her father's latest conviction.

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