UPDATED 9/24/08 12:23 p.m.: TAZEWELL, Tenn. (AP) -- A jury in Tazewell convicted a Claiborne County man of raping and torturing his teenage daughter with an animal shock collar.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported the verdicts were returned Tuesday against the man, who is not being named to protect his daughter's identity.

The then- 17-year-old girl told a school resource officer at Cumberland Gap High School last year that her father used shock collars on her that he also used to train dogs.

Capt. Sam Nelson of the Claiborne County Sheriff's office said the rapes came to light during the abuse investigation.

Assistant District Attorney Amanda Sammons told the News Sentinel jurors returned guilty verdicts on 11 counts of rape, 11 counts of incest and three counts of aggravated child abuse.

Sammons said the man's wife is awaiting trial on aggravated child abuse charges because she did nothing to stop the girl's abuse.

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CLAIBORNE COUNTY (WVLT) – Jurors reached a verdict on Tuesday evening in a brutal sexual abuse case.

The Claiborne Independent reports that Wayne C. Burkhart, 38 was convicted of more than 20 charges, which included aggravated assault, rape and incest.

Burkhart was arrested last November after accusations surfaced that he had placed shock collars, typically used to train hunting dogs, on his daughters and repeatedly raped them.

The trial opened on September 17th and jurors returned their decision just after 7:00 PM on Tuesday.

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