A Minneapolis man who admitted to sexually assaulting and beating his developmentally disabled twin daughters has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Jerry Lee Curry, 52, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 in Hennepin County District Court to one charge each of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree assault and gross misdemeanor child endangerment, according to the Hennepin County attorney’s office. Six related charges were dropped.

Judge Fred Karasov ordered that a 103-month sentence for assault be served after a 257-month sentence for criminal sexual conduct, adding up to a total of 360 months, or 30 years.

Curry is expected to serve 20 years in prison and 10 years under supervised release, according to the Hennepin County attorney’s office. He also will have to register as a sexual predator and is not allowed to possess firearms.

The daughters submitted a statement that was read aloud in court, according to Minnesota Public Radio. In it, they described the pain and abuse they suffered in the South Minneapolis home and said they hope Curry never gets out of jail.

Curry apologized in court and said he hoped God and his daughters would forgive him someday, MPR reported.

Police began investigating Curry after one of his 20-year-old twin daughters — referred to in Court documents as “Victim A” — escaped the home in April 2017 and sought help at a homeless shelter.

Hennepin County removed the other twin — referred to as “Victim B” — and a 10-year-old sister — referred to as “Victim C” — from Curry’s home.

Victims A and B were determined to have developmental disabilities that rendered them incapable of independent — or even partially independent — living.

Victim A told investigators that Curry chained her and Victim B to his bedroom door — sometimes for days — which left deep wounds on their wrists and ankles that occasionally became infected, according to the criminal complaint against him. She also said Curry beat them with bats and paddles on their heads, arms and legs.

A physical examination of Victim A found that the top of her ear was “largely detached.” She was also blind in one eye, which she said was the result of Curry stomping on her head.

The Center for Safe and Healthy Children described Curry’s treatment of the twins as torture.

Victim B, who had given birth in June 2014 and was pregnant with a second child when she was removed from Curry’s home, told a nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center that Curry had raped her.

A DNA test excluded all but 0.0001 percent of the general population as being the father of the children. Curry was in that 0.0001 percent.

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The younger sister did not exhibit any signs of abuse, but she told investigators that she witnessed the abuse of her sisters and that Curry had hit her in the head with a golf club when she was in second or third grade.

Curry’s wife, Shelia Wilson, 48, pleaded guilty Sept. 19 to criminal neglect and is scheduled for sentencing March 11.

The Hennepin County attorney’s office says it has filed to terminate Curry’s parental rights.