A 60-year-old businessman from the Corporate Area was yesterday charged with incest and indecent assault after allegedly fondling and performing oral sex on his 12-year-old daughter.

IAn employee saw the man sexually abusing his daughter and reported the matter to his son, who contacted the police.

The father was asked to visit the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) offices for questioning but he failed to turn up. He was subsequently arrested by police at his lawyer's office yesterday.

It's understood that the father was accused in the past of sexually abusing his daughters. The three girls, aged 15, 12 and nine, were taken into state care last Thursday.

Perverted acts

A police source disclosed that the father would take the minor in question into his room, at times, where he would carry out the perverted acts on her. The source continued that the 'acts' might have been taking place since the minor was as young as seven.