BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A Sedro-Woolley man is charged with repeatedly molesting his girlfriend’s young daughter in Bellingham.

The 8-year-old girl’s parents share custody and Whatcom Superior Court records show her father took her to a hospital after she disclosed the abuse.

She said 24-year-old Matthew Walter Baird touched her privates when her mother left them alone in her Texas Street apartment.

Officers arrested Baird on Friday, January 15th.

He faces a charge of 1st Degree Child Molestation.