A 43-year-old man identified as Emmanuel Odega has been arrested after his 16-year-old daughter screamed for help following his constant violation of her body.
The victim (name withheld) on Thursday told the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Courts, Ikeja, that the abuse started when her father started touching sensitive parts of her body.
She said: “When I noticed this, I moved away from him. I told my twin brother about it in the morning, but he shunned me and did not believe me.
“The next day, he had sex with me at night. I could not shout or do anything because he threatened me. He continued to do it after we moved from where we were and relocated to a wooden house at Badore, Ajah.
“At this point, it became an issue because he had sex with me almost every time on the beach.
“There was a night he woke me up and told me that the holy spirit told him to have sex with me. I thought he was pulling my legs, but when he realised that I was not ready to submit myself, he forcefully had sex with me.
“My father once had issues with his girlfriend, so he woke me up on the night of that day and led me into the kitchen to sleep with me. I dared not make any sound because he threatened to kill me, which was why I could not tell my mother.”
Reacting, Emmanuel blamed the devil, saying he was under spiritual attack.
The victim noted that help finally came when her father, while claiming that their neighbours were intrusive, took her and her sibling to his girlfriend’s house in Lekki, where he continued to violate her. One day the landlord came to her rescue after her father wanted to forcefully drag her out from his girlfriend’s house but she locked the door to prevent further violation.
“After the interventions of the landlord and another elderly man, I opened the door. He immediately took my bag and dragged me out, so I started shouting for help.
“Some boys in the neighbourhood came out and asked him where he was taking me to at that time of the night.
“He replied that he’s my father and I would not stay in his girlfriend’s house again. It was then I explained to the old man that my father had been having sex with me for almost one year,” the teenager said.
The minor said the resident called the estate chairman and the matter was reported to the police.
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