A 63-year-old man has been charged with representative counts of rape of his 44-year-old stepdaughter last month.

According to the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions, the accused allegedly started raping his stepdaughter from 1987 when she was 11-years-old.

There were 18 people charged with a total of 46 counts of separate sexual incidents in January.

Two juveniles were charged for rape last month.

A 15-year-old boy alongside an 18-year-old man were charged with the rape, attempt to commit rape and indecent assault of 7 and 12-year-old boys who were their cousins.

A 17-year-old boy was charged with the rape and sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl from his village.

There were 20 victims of whom 10 victims were under the age of 18 years. There were 17 female victims and 3 male victims.

There were 11 incidents where the victims and the accused were related to one another.

A 74-year-old man was charged with the rape and attempt to commit rape of his 7-year-old grandson while in another incident a 64-year-old man was charged with the rape and sexual assault of his 12-year-old granddaughter.

There was one incident where a 52-year-old man was charged with the rape and sexual assault of his 15-year-old intellectually disabled cousin.

A 26-year-old man was charged with the rape of his 18-year-old cousin.

There were two separate incidents where a 57-year-old man and a 53-year-old man were charged with the rape and sexual assault of their 43-year-old and 46-year-old wives.

A former government information officer was charged with the rape of a 19-year-old woman.

In another separate incident, a 53-year-old man was charged with the rape of a 15-year-old boy. The victim was an employee of the accused person.