A father from
hell, 42-year-old Segun (surname withheld) who allegedly impregnated his only
daughter (name withheld), a 16-year-old JSS 2 student in Igbeti, Oyo State is
now in prison custody for committing the abominable act.
It was gathered
that the sordid 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 divorced the mother of the victim, who was about
three then. After the divorce, the mother took custody of the victim and then
remarried. Much later, the victim began living with her father.
Continuing the
tale, Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kola Sodipo revealed that on the
fateful night, Segun demanded that the victim should undress. She refused and
attempted to escape. He threatened her with a cutlass and then raped her,
unconcerned about the excruciating pain she felt, being a virgin.
The evil father
continued the sordid deed thereafter, and this prompted 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.
Recounting how
her ordeal started and what transpired after, the victim told Sunday Sun:
“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 do his bidding. I removed my clothes and he forcefully had sex with me.
He was the first man to sleep with me because I had never had sex before then.
I reported 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 did 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, put pressure on me to answer
my father’s call as he wanted me to do some things for him 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 didn’t
know 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 showed I was pregnant.”
Sunday Sun gathered that The matron of the clinic informed the
victim’s grandfather that his son had impregnated the daughter. The suspect
denied the allegation and began maltreating the girl.
On what
followed thereafter, the victim said: “The case was reported at the police
station on April 30, 2014 and I started living with my paternal grandfather. I
was taken to General Hospital Igbeti, where my mother pleaded with the doctor
to abort the pregnancy, but the doctor said he would not do it. After I
delivered the baby and my grandmother was told the baby looks like father, my
father ran away.”
She explained
further: “When the pregnancy was confirmed, the Divisional Police Officer
(DPO) and the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) were the ones who purchased the
baby clothes and other things needed. They also paid 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 showed
that the pregnancy had reached four months. The baby was delivered on September
16, 2014.
Sodipo futher
told Sunday Sun that the Medical Director of the General Hospital
advised that DNA test should be carried out to determine the paternity of the
child but said it could not be done until six months after delivery of the
baby.
In the course
of investigation, the police were able to smoke out the suspect as Sunday
Sun learnt from the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi
Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, who also confirmed the arrest of the suspect.
The suspect was
thereafter arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court at Kisi presided over
by Chief Magistrate Usman Isiaku. He was subsequently remanded in Oyo Prison
and the case adjourned to October 24, 2014.
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mr man here z nt d rit place for ur so called adertisment
ReplyDeleteyoung angle take heart.just ve dat forgv heart.As for u d he goat,just b gettin ready to reap d fruit of ur labour.Remerber dat dose u use to eat by d sun wil definitly break into pieces by d same sun.onye aru.
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