Father charged with raping teenage daughter

A FORTY-ONE year-old man was yesterday charged with raping his teenage daughter.
Nicosia District Court sent the case straight to the Criminal Court for trial May 22 and has ordered the suspected remain in custody until that date.

According to a police spokesman yesterday, the 41-year-old has faces six charges of rape, incest, corruption of a young girl aged between 13 and 17, sexual abuse of a minor, indecent assault and domestic violence.

The story came to light last week, when the 14-year-old girl confided in her friends at school that her father had raped her twice, once in January and once two weeks ago. A horrified school friend told the school’s advisor, who informed the local Welfare Office.

A welfare officer immediately contacted the girl and met her. The teenager confessed she had been raped twice by her dad. On both occasions she was alone asleep in her room.

The officer took the girl to the police, where she filed an official complaint, which resulted in the father’s arrest and interrogation.

“A 14-year-old girl from a village in the Nicosia District, accompanied by a Welfare Officer, reported to police that her father, 41, had sexually abused her,” a police statement read.

An examination by the pathologist showed the 14-year-old’s hymen had been broken but not recently.

According to media reports last week, the father categorically denied the charges.

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