Man accused of molesting stepdaughter

A PHILLIPINO man was yesterday remanded in police custody for eight days, suspected of molesting his 13-year-old stepdaughter and causing grievous bodily harm to her sister.

The 30-year-old was arrested after his wife told police her husband was molesting her elder daughter — from her first marriage — and had used violence on her two other daughters, also from her first marriage.

In fact, she told police he had caused grievous bodily harm to one of them.

Medical examiner Sophoclis Sophocleous examined the two sisters and indeed found one had been molested and that bruises on the other were a result of battering.

The mother went to police after one of her daughters told her what was allegedly going on.

She had been married to a Cypriot, who was the girls’ biological father, but re-married after he died a few years ago.

Meanwhile a 75-year-old man was on Monday remanded in custody for five days on suspicion of indecently assaulting three little girls.

The Strovolos man was arrested after the girls, aged between six and eight and two of whom were sisters, told their parents they had been molested by the suspect on Sunday afternoon.

Police said the children had said the man had taken them to his flat, in the same building where they all lived, made them undress, exposed himself and began touching them.

The suspect denies the allegations.

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