The last is yet to heard of child molestation and rape as a father in oyo raped his own daughter
42-year-old Segun (surname withheld) who apparently got his only daughter pregnant (name withheld), a 16-year-old JSS 2 student in Igbeti, Oyo State is now in prison custody for committing
the detestable act.
The information came from a reliable source that the vile story began on December 1, 2013 at Gboro compound, Igbeti, when the suspect was said to have asked the victim to come and live with him. Thirteen years earlier, he had separated from the victim's mother , who was about three then. After the split, the mother took custody of the victim and then remarried. later on, the victim began living with her father.
The news we gathered from the Oyo State Commissioner of Police ,Mr Kola Sodipo, said that on the fateful night, Segun demanded that the victim should take-off her clothes. She refused and attempted to escape. He threatened her with a machete and then raped and defiled her,unconcerned about the agonizing pain she felt, being a virgin.
The father continued the evil act thereafter, and this caused the girl to report to her stepmother who lived in a different house but she didn’t take the matter seriously due to the shameful nature of the act.
Relating how her ordeal started and what happened after, the victim told News sources: “I was living with my mother until 2013 when my father asked me to come and live with him. On December 25, 2013 my father woke me up and asked me to remove my clothes but I refused. He drew a cutlass and threatened to kill me if I didn’t yield to his demand. I took-off my clothes and he forcefully raped me.
He was the first man to sleep with me because I had never had sex before then. I related the ugly
incident to one of his two wives who is a nurse and she promised to ask him but i don’t know whether she asked him or not.
“In March 2014, he repeated the same thing again and i ran to the house of his second wife and reported to her. She asked me to swear to an oath with the Bible but i refused since i knew i was speaking the truth. I started sleeping in her apartment. In April, he came and asked me to return to his apartment to do some things for him but i refused to go. His second wife, however, pressurized me to answer my father’s call as he needed my attention at home. I followed him after much pressure.
“During Easter celebration on April 18, 2014 he had sex with me again. All this while i had no knowledge that i was pregnant because i had my last menstruation in December 2013.
My stepmother suspected that i was pregnant and took me to a clinic at Igbeti where a test revealed i was pregnant.”
News sources gathered that The matron of the clinic informed the victim’s grandfather that his son had impregnated his own daughter. The suspect denied the allegation and began maltreating the
girl.
Thereafter, the victim said: “The case was reported at the police station on April 30, 2014 and i started living with my paternal grand father. I was taken to General Hospital Igbeti, where my mother pleaded with the doctor to terminate the pregnancy, but the doctor said he would not do it. After i gave birth to the baby and my grandmother was told the baby resemble my father and on hearing this information by my father ,he absconded.”
She explained further: “When the pregnancy was proven to be true, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) were the ones who purchased the baby clothes
and other needed materials. They also foot the hospital bill. I am appealing to the public to come to my assistance and help me finish my education. I am in JSS 2.”
According to Sodipo, an ultrasound scan done on May 1, 2014 at Bethsaida Hospital revealed that the pregnancy had reached four months. The baby was delivered on September 16, 2014.
Sodipo futher told a News source that the Medical Director of the General Hospital advised that DNA test should be carried out to ascertain the paternity of the child but said it could only be done after six month of the child's birth
In the course of investigation, the police were able to get hold of the suspect as News sources learnt from the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, who also
confirmed the arrest of the suspect.
The suspect was later arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court at Kisi presided over by Chief Magistrate Usman Isiaku. He was afterwards remanded in Oyo Prison and the case adjourned to
October 24, 2014 for further hearing.
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