…When she was 9 months, my husband put his manhood in her mouth—Mother
…I took my daughter away ‘cos her mother ran mad—Suspect
A 12-year-old girl, yesterday, gave a startling revelation
of how her father and his step-son allegedly took turns to rape her for seven
months in Ilogbo area of Lagos. She said it started with her father and his
mistress holding her legs apart for the woman’s son to rape her.
At the moment,
the victim, who was alleged to have been forced out of school while in Junior Secondary
School 1, had been treated for several sexually-transmitted diseases allegedly
contracted during the said period.
Vanguard was informed that the suspect,
identified simply as Adimawu, a commercial bus driver, took his daughter away
from their Isheri apartment in May 2016, following a misunderstanding with his
wife.
He reportedly took her to his mistress’ home at Ilogbo.
During her stay there, the victim was stopped from going to school, as she was
assisting her father’s mistress to sell oil bean seed, otherwise known as ugba,
at the Alaba International Market.
Her story
Narrating how she was violated, the victim said: “One of my
father’s mistress’ son, Kenneth, crept to where I slept on the floor one night
and started touching my private parts. I woke up and rushed to inform my
father, who was sleeping on the bed with his mistress.
“But he drove me back,
saying I should allow him do whatever he wanted to do with me. My father came
to where I was sleeping and, with the assistance of his mistress, parted my
legs and instructed his stepson to have sex with me.
“The next day, after
everyone had gone out, my father called me inside, locked the door and had sex
with me. He warned me not to tell anyone about what happened, threatening to
kill me if I did.
“Since then, my father and his stepson had taken turns to
rape me. At times, when I went to sell ugba at Alaba, his stepson would take me
to an uncompleted building, where he would place some cartoons on the ground
and rape me.”
More revelations
Vanguard learned that after police and family members’
intervention, the suspect brought his daughter back home in December 2016.
But
her mother, who claimed to have been suspecting that all was not well with her
daughter, subjected the latter to questioning, in the process of which she
opened up.
The victim’s mother told Vanguard that she caught her husband with
his manhood inside their daughter’s mouth when she was nine months.
She said it
happened again when the victim was six years. Narrating how this latest
development came to the fore, she said: “I discovered something strange about
the way she was walking when she returned home.
“When I asked her initially,
she did not talk until I involved one of her teachers, who was taking her
extramural classes, before she opened up. “When I confronted my husband, he
beat me to stupor and drove me and my daughter away. We have been staying with
a relative since December 2016.
‘Missing’
“I had gone to the market to buy foodstuff one day, only to
return and discovered that my daughter was missing. When my husband came back,
I asked him about her whereabouts, he denied knowing where she was, saying I
should look for her.
“Even when the matter of our missing child was reported to
the police, he denied knowing where she was until December, when he said he
took her to learn a trade at a relative’s. “It took the intervention of the
police and some relatives before he brought her back last December.”
His story
Asked why he took the child away from home, the suspect told
policemen at the Human Right Desk, Ikotun Police Division, that his wife had a
mental problem, adding that he had to take their daughter away from home to
ensure her safety.
In a swift reaction, his wife described the claim as a lie,
saying “I was never mad, neither was I ever sick.
The emotional and
psychological effect during the period I was searching for my only child made
him conclude that I was mad.” She further disclosed that her husband’s action
was only a ploy to chase her away from the house they both built so he can
bring in his mistress and her children.
Arrest
However, during interrogation, the suspect described the allegations as lies. Police sources hinted that the suspect earlier admitted to the claim that his stepson raped his daughter.
As at yesterday, Vanguard was informed that the case would be transferred to the command headquarters, Ikeja. Lawyer to the victim, Ozoana, said he would assist his client and mother legally, until justice prevailed.
Vanguard Reports.
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