A 39-year-old man has been arrested on the charge of raping his daughter in Kaski. The incident came to light after the 13-year-old daughter called a Non-Government Organization (NGO) for help on Monday.

Police arrested the man on Tuesday after the NGO lodged a written complaint at the District Police Office on Monday evening. The survivor’s mother also filed a separate complaint on Wednesday against her husband demanding strict action for raping their daughter.

The police complaint mentions that the man had started to sexually abuse his daughter since she was studying in Grade IV and eight-years-old. The girl has said that her father even took her to a hotel on November 21 and raped her.

According to the girl’s mother, the man had brought their daughter to Pokhara on a motorcycle at around 5:00 pm, saying that he had to deliver sacks of rice to his friend. The father-daughter duo returned home at around 7:30 pm that day.

When she asked her husband why they were late, he did not answer. However, according to the teenage daughter, after delving the rice the man took her to a hotel on their way back home for some snacks.

He forced her to drink beer and started sexually abusing her. The girl’s cries for help went unheard. The teenager has said that her father forcefully showed her nude photos and videos of her mother on his mobile phone and also took her nude videos to blackmail her. Following which, he raped her at the hotel room.

Unable to take it anymore, the girl called the NGO from a neighbor’s mobile phone on Monday and reported them about her ordeal. After the arrest of the father, the girl is currently being sheltered by the NGO.

“As the incident was horrifying, we filed a police complaint demanded the man’s arrest on the same day,” said a representative of the organization.

“The girl told representatives of the organization that her father had raped her for the first time when she was in class four at a time when no one was at home. After that, she was sexually abused for years by her own father either in her house or at some hotels. He used to beat her, not let her get out of the house, and constantly abused her sexually,” a representative said.

According to the girl, she told her mother about her father’s abuses about three years ago, but she stopped talking about it when she saw her father beating her mother. She even told her uncles and aunts about her father’s behavior and even wrote about it to the school teacher, but to no avail.

“Even in the neighborhood, it was not a secret that the man was sexually abusing his own daughter. But no one spoke,” said advocate Kunjani Pariyar, who is currently looking into the case, adding, “The father would take her to work with him all day, and when the girl tried to tell her mother about her ordeal in the morning or evening, he would always be there and not let them communicate.”

After the man’s arrest, his 20-year-old elder daughter revealed that he had also sexually abused her. The elder daughter said that she dropped out of class 9 due to her father’s sexual abuses and got married at an early age to get away from him.

“His wicked behaviour is not a new thing. I tried to talk to friends about his act, but there was no one to support me at that time. Father would always be around when I tried to talk to mother about this. I couldn’t speak due to fear,” said the elder daughter.

Advocate Pariyar said that a complaint has been filed demanding maximum punishment for the man and compensation to the survivor.

According to District Police Office Spokesperson DSP Subash Hamal, the man has admitted to the crime in his preliminary statement.

Meanwhile, Makwanpur District Court has sentenced a man from Hetauda to 37 years in prison for raping his daughter.

A single bench of Justice Sita Sharma Adhikari, on Tuesday, sentenced the 42-year-old father to 12 years imprisonment for rape and life imprisonment for acquaintance rape of his 14-year-old daughter.

According to the new act, life imprisonment accounts to 25 years in prison.

The father had been repeatedly raping his daughter since 2016 after his wife committed suicide. After the neighbours found out about his abominable act, they reported the incident to police who arrested him on April 12.