Four-year-old child
has lost her voice following several sexual assaults on her by her
37-year-old father, identified as Ademola.
Her mother explained to Saturday PUNCH how her husband of 14 years had been molesting their daughter.
Blessed with four children; three girls, including a set of twins, and a
boy,things became took a dark turn when she caught her husband sexually
assaulting their 2nd child.
The unfortunate incident seems to be tearing the family further apart
as she has not only moved out of the house; she has vowed never to
return, whilst accusing her husband of being diabolical.
She began, “It started in 2013 when I suddenly woke up one night and saw
my husband removing the panties of my daughter. It was in the midnight.
I wanted to shout but I wanted to see what he was up to. So, I
pretended as if I didn’t see him because the room was relatively dark.
“When he pulled down her pant, he looked around and when he felt
convinced that everyone was deep asleep, he stood up and moved to where
the girl was and dipped his hand in her private part. I screamed.
“To say I was shocked was to say the least. He was shocked too because
he didn’t know anyone was watching, so he quickly stood up, pulled up
his trousers and started beating me.”
She said she would have left the home that night but she said she had to
stay because she was already pregnant for him at the time.
She continued, “He beat me that night such that blood came out of my
body. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until that night and the
pregnancy was about two months old. I ran away from him for some time
and I told my relatives. But I had to go back because of the pregnancy
and that was when I had a set of twins for him.”
She said she had thought he had changed and would never do such a
despicable act again, but unknown to her, other things had been going on
without her knowledge. She said the straw that broke the camel’s back
happened on July 17, 2015 when she caught him molesting her daughter
again the same way he did before.
With her eyes soaked in tears, she said, “I thought he had stopped until
the night of July 17, 2015 around 1am. It was a Friday. Rebecca was
sleeping beside me but I saw him stand up, he carried the girl to the
other side of the bed. He didn’t know I was awake. I had wanted to shout
but I wanted to know what he was up to again. So, he removed his
trousers, turned his back at me and crawled to where Rebecca was lying.
“He didn’t know I was looking at him. He pulled down her panties and
started inserting his finger in her private part again. I thought I was
dreaming. I screamed and continued shouting. He was shocked and couldn’t
talk. He was just looking. Then, he went back to sleep.
“The following morning, I challenged him why he was doing that to his
own child. I know he is diabolical, so I told him if his plan was to use
my daughter for anything evil, he would not prosper. That was what got
him angry and he started beating me. He said he would kill me. Then, my
other children started crying and shouting, and he didn’t stop until one
of our neighbours intervened.
“The following day, I went to the church to report to the shepherd of
the church he was attending, Celestial Church of Christ, somewhere
around Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government. The shepherd was shocked too
but he pleaded with me to exercise patience. Because of the fear of
what he could do to us, we left the house and moved to the church and we
kept sleeping there.”
Folake explained that her estranged husband, who is a motor mechanic in
Ikotun area, came to the church, beat her and forcefully took away their
17-month-old twins, whom she was still breastfeeding, noting that the
two girls had been in his custody since then.
Her seven-year-old son, identified simply as Seun, told Punch
correspondent that he had seen his father on top of his sister on
several occasions , stating that he had caught him twice in the act of
putting his hand “under” his sister. He explained that his father used
to rub his hands all over Rebecca’s body but he barely knew what he was
up to.
Disturbed by the incident, Folake said she reported the assault at the
Igando Police Station and to the Executive Director, Esther Child Rights
Foundation, Mrs. Esther Ogwu, who had helped to monitor the case with
the police. Folake added that some of the policemen at the station
laughed at her when they heard about the case.
Ogwu told Saturday PUNCH that it would be in the interest of all if
justice was done on the matter, saying she would follow the matter to
its conclusion.
She added, “We have involved the National Human Rights Commission,
Office of the Public Defender and the Lagos State Ministry of Justice in
the case so as to ensure justice. It is increasingly becoming important
for parents to pay due attention to their children to guard them
against assault.”
Even though a test conducted on the girl at the Mirabel Sexual Assault
Referral Centre at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja,
Lagos, confirmed that the girl had been assaulted and her hymen broken,
Folake noted that to her dismay, Ademola has been released on bail by
the police, and that the police in Igando have been reluctant in taking
the case to court.
Folake said that her worry was that the man who had done both spiritual
and psychological damage to her little daughter should was about to go
scot free.
“This girl’s private part has almost become rotten and as young as she
is, her breast is already coming out, and she limps occasionally. I can
never entrust my children into his hands and that is why I’m worried
about the twins that are with him. They are also girls. I don’t want him
to molest them too.“He had afflicted us with charm but we have been set
free. The two children in school have been very retarded, coupled with
the fact that Rebecca has not been talking until she did twice just two
months ago. And since then, she has stopped again. She just doesn’t talk
and she urinates frequently. She should be in Nursery One now but she
seems not to be coping. Even her teachers are complaining she had become
a recluse and she keeps urinating all the time.”
When Ademola was contacted over the allegations levelled against him by his wife and son, he said:
“She is lying against me. I didn’t do any of those things they were
saying. She has been looking for ways to move out of the house because
she has seen someone else she wants to marry and that was why she left
the house.”
The Divisional Police Officer, Igando Police Station, Mr. Segun
Fagbohun, said that he has transferred Ademola and the case to the State
Criminal Investigation Department at Yaba for further investigations.
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