Police officials of Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State arrested and paraded a 48-year old man, Adeboye Waheed for defiling his 14-year-old daughter (names withheld) to check her virginity status at Adama Araro Street in Ikorodu area of the state.
The victim, an SS1 student of Araromi Isoju Grammar School in Ikorodu, who lived with her father, step mother and four siblings, revealed that she was defiled twice with a condom.
Narrating her ordeal, she said, “My father started checking my private part, to check if I have started mensuration in 2014. On a particular day in November of the same year, I was sleeping on the floor of our one room apartment in the night, he removed my wrapper. My step mother was not around that day.
“He used his fingers to touch my private part and asked if I was menstruating. He also asked me if anybody had ever had sex with me, I said no. He said he would use his penis to test me to confirm the truth. That was how he forced his ‘manhood’ on me and covered my mouth not to shout.
“From that time, I started bleeding till morning when I became weak and he did nothing. He warned me not to let anybody know.”
It was also learnt that the suspect repeated the act on The victim said her father repeated the act on Thursday, March 5, 2015.
She continued, “I was browsing with someone’s phone in the house when he asked me to remove my clothes. He put on condom and had sex with me. I felt very bad inside me but I could do nothing.
“The next day, I packed my belongings and ran away from the house to a near-by church.
“I really felt humiliated. Before I left, I threw away all the condoms he bought and dropped a note that he should not look for me. At the church, I narrated what happened to me to them and they took the matter to the police.”
While being paraded before journalists on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 the suspect blamed the act on strange influence which befell him.
The state police spokesperson who was represented by Mr Olorunfemi Shem, said all the investigations carried on the matter and the medical report from a government hospital showed that the suspect violated his daughter.
He said: “Our investigation and medical report from a government hospital proved that the girl was defiled by her father.”
Below are some photos of the culprit. (Click on any image to enlarge).
