An Italian tourist has been arrested in Brazil, after onlookers reported him to police for kissing his eight-year-old daughter.
The man could face up to 15 years behind bars under the country's strict new law designed to combat child sex abuse.
However his Brazilian wife says the case is all a misunderstanding, while staff at the resort where the incident took place have been reported as saying they saw nothing unusual.
The unnamed man, who has been in custody for more than a week according to the BBC online, is alleged to have touched the girl in an intimate way.
A Brazilian couple claimed he had been touching a young girl inappropriately and had kissed her on the mouth while they were both at a swimming pool close to the beach in full view of other tourists.
But his wife says the witnesses didn't know the girl was his daughter - and that they misinterpreted seeing a foreign white man with a young darker-skinned girl.
The north-east of Brazil has for some years had a problem of paedophiles travelling to the area, reports the BBC.
Under strict new legislation passed only last month the offence of molesting a child under the age of 14 can carry a penalty of between eight to 15 years in jail.







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