A Long Island man was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually abusing his 8-year-old daughter, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The 33-year-old Bay Shore man, who hasn’t been named to protect the victim’s identity, is accused of abusing the girl multiple times between October 2021 and November 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

The victim, who was 8 years old when the abuse started, lived with her mother and father on alternating weekly schedules, prosecutors said.

On the weeks she was in her father’s care, he “engaged in acts of sexual abuse against his daughter,” according to the district attorney’s office. He also warned her that she would face violence if she ever told anyone about the abuse.

In the fall of 2022, the girl’s mother noticed

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