A 54-year-old man was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to 3 charges of molestation on 30 January.
He had molested his stepdaughter, who was 17 years old at the time, from 2016 to 2019. before the victim told her mother about it and she reported him to the police.
The couple, who got married in 2014, are now divorced.
The man cannot be identified because of a court order protecting the identity of the victim.
What happened?
In 2016, the man was in the living room with the victim when they started teasing each other, and she then ran into her bedroom and closed the door while trying to hide from her stepfather.
He then opened the door and the two started wrestling on the bed, with the man resting his body on top of her before biting her on her chest over her clothes.
The girl then screamed for help and the man then left the bedroom.
The victim’s mother, who was in the kitchen at the time, went into her bedroom to see what happened but the victim didn’t tell her what happened.
On 19 March 2018, the man was with the victim in the kitchen when he tried to kiss her on her lips, but the victim struggled against him while resisting.
The man pinned her down on the floor and touched her private parts as she screamed for help and told him to stop, and she then left the flat after that.
About 3 months later, the victim told her boyfriend about what happened but stopped him from reporting the incident to the police.
The man then attacked her once again on 20 February 2019 at about 8.30am; he grabbed the victim’s right breast while her mother was in the master bedroom.
The victim screamed and the mother then rushed out to see what happened, but the victim refused to tell her mother what happened.
She eventually broke her silence later that evening and told her mother about it and she then lodged a police report.