A Malaysian man has been charged with more than 600 sex assaults against his daughter, and could face a jail term of over 12,000 years if found guilty, officials said on Thursday.

Court officials took two days to read out all 626 charges against the 36-year-old divorcee, and finished the proceedings on Thursday afternoon.

They included 599 charges of sodomy against the 15-year-old girl, as well as counts of incest, rape and other sex crimes.

Suspect remains calm

The bespectacled suspect, in a grey T-shirt and blue trousers was calm when the charges were read in court. He pleaded not guilty and the case will now proceed to trial.

“He faces a prison sentence of over 12,000 years,” Aimi Syazwani, a deputy public prosecutor, said at a newly-established special court for sex crimes against children in the administrative capital Putrajaya.

The suspect cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim.