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Waukesha Man Charged with Incest

Suspect allegedly began treating his daughter "like a girlfriend" after she graduated high school, according to court documents.

A Waukesha man is facing incest charges after he allegedly kept trying to have sex with his daughter and forced her to inappropriately touch him while he was intoxicated.

The man - who isn’t being named by Patch in order to protect the identity of the victim - was charged in Monday with two counts of incest. If convicted, he faces up to 80 years in prison and $200,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint, police found the victim tipping over picnic tables and not wearing shoes and while interviewing her, she told police she wasn’t going back to her dad’s house because he had been abusing her.

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She told police they had a normal relationship until she graduated high school and he then began treating her “like a girlfriend” and not a daughter. He would slap her on her butt and became angry when he found out she had a boyfriend, the complaint states.

The victim told police her dad would make her inappropriately touch him on several occasions and forced her to sleep on an air mattress in the living room where he would attempt to have sex with her, the complaint states.

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She wasn’t wearing shoes when police found her because she had escaped through a window from her dad’s house and wasn’t planning to return, court documents state.

The suspect admitted to the incidents to police, saying he has issues with alcohol. He’s currently being held in Waukesha County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.

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