Prosecutors in Colombia have announced that they have charged the father of two of the four indigenous children who survived a May plane crash in the Amazon region of the South American country with sexual abuse, Reuters reports.

The children were reported missing after the small plane they were flying in crashed, killing their mother and two other adults.

In a statement, the prosecutor’s office accused Manuel Ranok of sexually abusing his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

It was this girl who ensured that she and her younger siblings survived more than five weeks of ordeal in the Amazon, a case that made headlines around the world.

Ranok, who was arrested Friday, is accused of abusing his stepdaughter since she was 10 years old.

The children, aged between 1 and 13, were in hospital for more than a month after they were rescued in June.

Since then, they have been under the care of the Columbia Institute for Family Welfare, where prosecutors say Ranok was suspected of abusing her stepdaughter.

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