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DATELINE: PROVO, Utah (KUTV) — A Provo couple was arrested after their teenage daughter reported that her stepfather had been raping her for the past 18 months with her mother’s knowledge, court documents stated. The parents told investigators that teaching their daughter about sex, and “engaging in sexual acts” with her, would be “safer for her than having sex with strangers.”
Officials responded to their home on Thursday and were told by the suspects that they had been engaging in sexual activity with their daughter since she was 14 years old. The girl’s mother said she and her husband, both in their 30s, approached her daughter over one year ago “with the idea of having sexual experiences together.”
The girl’s stepfather told police he had raised her “since the day she was born.” He faces four felony charges, including a first-degree felony of rape and a second-degree felony of forcible sexual abuse.
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After the stepfather was arrested, he reportedly admitted to police that he had intercourse with the teenager, the affidavit says. In addition to admitting to the intercourse, documents say the stepfather admitted he and the victim’s mother bought sex toys for the teenager and “showed [the victim] how to use them,” both on the child and on the parents. Documents say the stepfather also told police he and the victim would shower together.
When police interviewed the victim’s biological mother, she also reportedly admitted to engaging in sexual actions with her husband and the teenaged victim, according to the affidavit. The mother told police that her husband would not have sex with the victim, but instead would have sex with his wife in front of the child, documents say.
However, the affidavit states that the mother said, about two months before the arrest, the victim came to her with concerns about a broken condom. The mother reportedly confronted the stepfather about “having full intercourse with the victim and he denied it at that time,” as stated in the affidavit.
✱ The victim’s stepfather was arrested for forcible sexual abuse, forcible sodomy, object rape and rape. The victim’s mother was arrested for forcible sexual abuse, forcible sodomy and object rape.
✱ The couple have 4 other children.
✱ Both the man and the woman are being held without bail.
