A 46-year-old food stall operator in Kajang has been engaging in sexual relationship with his 21-year-old daughter whenever his wife is not around, the Star reported today.

They would have carried on with their three-year-old affair if not for an uncle who found out about it when he found steamy text messages from the father to daughter.

A police source said the uncle who had borrowed the woman’s handphone to make a call as his handphone battery had died, stumbled upon the text messages.

After being questioned, the woman who has been working in the uncle’s hair salon since completing her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), confessed that she was a willing partner in the relationship and added that she was in love with her father.

The uncle had then brought the woman home and confronted her father, in the presence of her mother.

The woman revealed she last had sex with her father in October and added that he gave her money each time after sex.

Although the woman was reluctant to lodge a police report, the uncle insisted and brought her to the Kajang police station as he was worried the same fate would befall her nine-year-old sister.

The man has been remanded until Nov 26 to facilitate investigations under Section 376A of the Penal Code for incest, while his daughter has been sent to the Kajang Hospital for a medical check-up.

The offence carries a jail sentence of between six and 20 years, and whipping upon conviction.

Legal sources said that if the father is charged with the offence, she could also be liable under Section 376A, depending on the circumstances of the case.

The Attorney-General’s Chambers will then decide if the woman was a victim or should be charged as well.