Man is arrested on suspicion of raping 17-year-old stepdaughter, in Lagoa Seca, PB Reproduction / TV Cabo Branco A 39-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon (9) in Lagoa Seca, in Agreste da Paraíba, suspected of raping his 17-year-old stepdaughter. The arrest was carried out by the Civil Police following a complaint made by the teenager's mother. ✅ Click here to follow the g1 PB channel on WhatsApp According to the Civil Police, the victim's mother went to the municipal police station and reported that her daughter had been sexually assaulted by her stepfather since she was 9 years old. During this period, according to the statement, the girl had mobility difficulties. According to the mother, the suspect did not allow the child to be taken to the hospital and “preferred to medicate him at home”. After these episodes, the mother reported that she noticed her daughter more withdrawn and that, in the last few days, the behavior had returned. The woman also said that, when she was at her mother-in-law's house, she saw several boxes of sleeping pills in one of the rooms. From this, she stated that she discovered that both she and her daughter had been drugged. The suspect was taken to the Civil Police prison in Campina Grande, where he remains detained and awaits a custody hearing. Shattered childhood: how to heal the trauma of sexual abuse? Most watched videos from g1 Paraíba