It is a sick world we live in or how else can you explain a
world where a 42 year old man named Segun allegedly raped his 16 year old
daughter, and got her pregnant?
Segun (surname withheld) is now cooling off in Police cell
after allegedly raping and impregnating his 16 year old daughter who is a JSS 2
student in Igbeti, Oyo State, according to the Sun.
This is a sad story, but continue reading to find out how
Segun found himself in this mess…
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 the
paper 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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