The Associated Press
A southern Kentucky man has been indicted on an incest charge for allegedly fathering a child with his daughter nearly two decades ago.
Pulaski County Sheriff’s detective Brett Whitaker told the Commonwealth Journal the case against the now 78-year-old man started in 2005 when officials investigated a neglect complaint about the child, who was born in 1991.
Whitaker said DNA confirmed the man was the child’s father and grandfather.
The Associated Press doesn’t name alleged victims of sex crimes and isn’t naming the man in this case to protect the daughter’s identity.
Whitaker told the Somerset newspaper the man admitted a sexual relationship from the time the daughter was 13 until she was in her 30s. The man was not immediately arrested as authorities sought him following the indictment last week. Whitaker said the woman is now in her 40s.
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