A Federal Way man pleaded not guilty to rape of a child and molestation charges on Monday.

Asdrubal Sampayo-Rodriguez, 39, is being held at the Kent Regional Justice Center with bail set at $75,000.

He was charged March 23 with first-degree child molestation and second-degree rape of a child after Kent police arrested him at an AMPM convenience store on March 18.

A day prior to his arrest, a woman contacted the Federal Way Police Department to report the rape and molestation of her two daughters.

The woman and her children had been living with Sampayo-Rodriguez for five years.

According to charging documents, the woman said she found out Sampayo-Rodriguez had raped her 13-year-old daughter a year ago after reading her daughter’s private messages on Facebook.

She told police that, about a year ago, her daughter began “acting up,” and she questioned her daughter’s behaviour.

Her daughter responded that she was being touched by Sampayo-Rodriguez. Thinking her daughter was lying to get out of trouble, the woman did nothing about the allegation.

Court documents reflect the girl had been cutting herself, suffering from depression and making suicidal threats, which led to her being involuntarily committed in March.

It was only after the woman read her daughter’s private Facebook messages discussing the rape that she contacted police.

After learning her daughter had a Facebook account when she wasn’t supposed to, the woman demanded her daughter give her the password. While in her daughter’s account, she read a conversation between her ex-husband’s sister and her daughter.

Her daughter reportedly revealed details of how Sampayo-Rodriguez grabs her, tries to kiss her, touches her “down there” and how he “actually sticked it in.”

The woman woke her daughter up at midnight that night and questioned her, but the daughter wasn’t cooperative.

She asked her about it again the next day as she was driving her to school and her daughter admitted she had been raped in 2015 by Sampayo-Rodriguez.

During the conversation, court documents show the girl said that if her mother didn’t believe her, she should ask her little sister because “he has touched her too.”

Her little sister is 8 years old.

In an interview with detectives, the older victim confirmed many details, including that the suspect came into her room a year ago when her sister was in California and her mother was at work.

She said he climbed in bed with her and started to touch her under her clothes. Although she was able to get out of bed, the suspect allegedly followed her to the floor and forcibly molested her.

As her mother came into the house, court documents say the suspect “quickly got out of bed and jumped up and went to the bathroom and got into the shower” while the girl pretended to be asleep.

Her mother came into her room and the girl told her what happened, but her mother allegedly “blamed her, saying she never protects herself” and that she’d “take care of the problem.”

But the molestation and rape continued.

“[The victim] stated that she was worried about her sisters being victimized and raped and she thought if Sampayo-Rodriguez raped her, he would not rape her sisters,” the court documents state.

The younger daughter told her mother that Sampayo-Rodriguez allegedly touched her on March 16 or 17 while her mother was at work.

A bottle of Nivea lotion was used, which police obtained through a search warrant issued for the residence in Federal Way.

Sampayo-Rodriguez “exercised his right to silence” when he was arrested and booked into jail.

A case setting hearing for Sampayo-Rodriguez is scheduled for April 12 at the Regional Justice Center.

Sampayo-Rodriguez’s criminal history includes a domestic violence assault conviction from 2015 and multiple domestic violence convictions from California.