A judge in Connecticut dismissed charges against a man suspected of raping an autistic 9-year-old girl after the victim’s father refused to let his daughter testify, according to a report.

Suspect Victor Fernandez, 44, had faced raps of aggravated first-degree sexual assault with a child and illegal sexual contact.

They were dropped Thursday by Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin after a motion was filed by his public defender, the Connecticut Post reported.

A prosecutor had told Devlin that the girl’s father told her he would not be letting the girl – who lives in Florida with her dad – testify in the case. Without the child’s testimony, the prosecution could not go forward, authorities said.

Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Ann Lawlor then asked Devlin to issue a missing witness nolle, meaning that if the state was able to find the girl within the next 13 months, it could renew the prosecution against Fernandez.

But Fernandez’s lawyer successfully countered that the girl was, in fact, not missing, leading Devlin to dismiss the charges against the suspect.

The Connecticut Post reported in August that police said the girl told a social worker Fernandez — who was a friend of the girl’s family — pulled off her clothes and “played sex with me.”

Investigators said the girl later reenacted the alleged attack when given two anatomically correct dolls during a forensic interview. Police said the girl took the dolls and played out a conversation between the two figures, during which the male doll asked, “Could I have sex with you?

“He played sex with me,” the girl then told the interview at the Center for Family Justice, according to the newspaper. “But then I screamed.”