The Edo state police command have arrested a middle-aged man, Friday Moses, for allegedly raping and impregnating his 13-year-old daughter in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state.
The suspect was arrested after members of the community where he resides noticed his daughter was pregnant. The girl did not even know she was pregnant. Upon inquiry, the victim told her neighbors that her father had been having sex with her since she turned seven. The victim’s mother died in 2013 and so had been living alone with her father.
When interrogated, Friday who is an indigene of Cross Rivers state, denied having sex and impregnating his daughter.
“I was told that I impregnated my daughter. Someone else owns that pregnancy; she told them (community members) that I was responsible for it. I never slept with her. A woman told me that she was pregnant. The following day, the community summoned me and the police arrested me. When I told the police that I was not responsible for the pregnancy, they began to beat me up.” he said The victim however insisted that her father was responsible for her pregnancy.
“My father slept with me five times. He started when I was a little girl. He would order me to come on the bed and begin to touch my waist. When I told him to leave me alone, he said that he would severe my head with a machete. When I reported him to some people in the community, they beat him up.” she said,
Another rape case was also reported in the same sate of a father who raped and impregnated his 17 year old daughter .
A 55-year old man, simply identified as Osaro, has allegedly defiled his nine-year old daughter and impregnated his 17-year old step-daughter.
Residents of Ogida Quarters in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State were shocked when they heard the man’s sexual escapades with the girls. The revelation followed his arrest and detention by the police at the Ogida Police Division. The suspect was in police detention last night for the alleged crime. Onlookers shed tears as the nine-year old victim told reporters how her father defiled her. The youngster urged the police to jail her father.
She said: “My daddy slept with me all the time. In the night, when I am asleep, he would take me to the chair in the parlour and lie on top of me. He used to do it anytime. If I wanted to shout, he would cover my mouth. It used to pain me. “I want my daddy to go to prison. I want them to arrest my daddy. They should put him in jail so that he will not come out again.”
The mother of the victim, who gave her name as Stella, said her husband wanted to sleep with her second daughter but succeeded in impregnating her third daughter. Stella, who had left her husband, said she returned to him after he confessed and pretended to have repented.
She said: “He later succeeded in sleeping with my other 17-year-old daughter. After impregnating the girl, he begged me severally to forgive him. He started the church I used to attend and confessed what he had done. The church members begged me and I accepted him. He has paid my bride price; so, I went back. “After we settled, my husband started with his daughter. The little girl told me what she was going through in the hands of her father. I asked my husband but he denied. He said he had stopped the act since he repented.
“One afternoon, I caught him on top of our daughter. I didn’t realise it was my daughter he was making love to. I went to the church and vowed that I could not continue with the marriage. I was tired of forgiving him all the time. I packed out of the house and went to my first daughter’s house.
“I started praying fervently. On Christmas Day, he drove me outside at 8pm. He was alone inside with the children. The next day, my daughter told me what he did to her. When I decided to check my daughter’s private part, he beat me up. But neighbours intervened.” The police said the case had been transferred to their headquarters for further investigation.
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