“Our father started it when I
was 11 years old. I did not know
he was doing same to my sister
who was then eight years. "I only got to know when I saw
her blood stained undies and
when I demanded to know
whether she had started seeing
her monthly flow, she revealed
that our father slept with her the previous night. He usually
crept to either of us at night
whenever he wanted to satisfy
his urge... "He was the one who dis-
virgined us,” the senior
daughter to investigators.
Policemen attached to Ikotun
Division in Lagos State have
arrested a man said to have been having carnal knowledge
of his two daughters
between the ages of 10 and 13,
in the past two years. His daughters reportedly
claimed to have been going
through what they described as
horrible experience since their
mother left them for another
man. Unable to resist their father, they endured until the
elder girl confided in her
friend’s mother, who then
contacted some child rights
groups. The organisations were said to
have effected the father’s
arrest at his 29, Omooye
Street, Abaranje, Lagos last
Saturday and handed him over
to policemen at Ikotun division. Father begs to be forgiven On
his part, the 35-year-old
suspect, a commercial bus
driver identified as Adewale
Adeleke, admitted to the police
that he committed the sacrilegious act. He claimed,
however, that he did not know
what usually comes over him at
that point. Hear him: “I beg to be forgiven.
This is the handiwork of the
devil because I do not know
what usually comes over me.
What usually happened was
that the urge would just come and before I know it, I would be
with either of them.” When news of the act reached
the mother of the children who
resides in Ibadan, the Oyo State
capital, she reportedly rushed
to Lagos, where she was
quoted as saying that she was shocked beyond words. She said she was forced to
leave her husband because of
alleged battering, in spite of
the fact that she was the one
responsible for the upkeep of
the home. She said while leaving, she handed her two
children to her mother with the
intention of sending them
monthly allowance, only for
their father to go and take
them. The two girls are now under
police protection.