Govendo remanded Peterkin Floresca Tababa, 33, to the custody of the Department of Corrections after his initial appearance and bail hearing on Friday.
Tababa is being held on charges of sexual abuse of a minor in first and second degrees.
Assistant Attorney General Shelli Neal is the prosecutor.
Detective Peter Camacho said officials of the school where the victim was studying reported the sexual abuse case on Oct. 14, 2009.
The victim, then 12 years old, told police she had had sexual intercourse with Tababa since she was 10, and “that she was too scared to tell anyone.”
On the next day, the victim told a Division of Youth Services staffer that it was not Tababa who impregnated her but the defendant’s father.
On Dec. 1, 2009, police interviewed the defendant’s father at the Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Office, and he stated that he never had any sexual relationship with the victim.
The defendant’s father also consented to DNA testing.
The DNA result indicated a “99.9999 percent” probability that Peterkin Tababa is the father of the victim’s baby, Camacho said.
When interviewed by police at DPS, Peterkin Tababa admitted to having sexual intercourse with the then-12-year-old victim in 2009.
