According to his arrest warrant issued in December 2007, detective JoAnna Burton noted the girl told her grandmother she didn't want "daddy touching me anymore".
The child said Richards sexually abused her in her mother's bedroom and her brother's room in his $1.8 million mansion. Richards told her it would be "our little secret".
Richard's wife told the police her husband admitted to abusing the girl but said it was an "accident" and promised "not to do it again", according to the warrant reportedly seen by the Delaware-based News Journal.
Richards was freed on a $60,000 bail while awaiting charges and was offered a plea to a single count of fourth-degree rape carrying no mandatory jail time, which he later accepted, admitting in court that he abused his own daughter.
Richards was placed on Level 3 probation for eight months, which requires weekly contacts with a probation officer, before Judge Jurden placed him on Level 2, which only requires a monthly visit with a probation officer.
Richards is unemployed and lives off his trust fund. He is a relative of the DuPont family and the son of Robert H Richards III, a partner at the Richards Layton & Finger corporate law firm.
- UK Independent
