Seven
year-old, Nneka, (not real name) narrated how her father plays with her private
part and inserts his manhood in her mouth. The little girl lives with her
parents at Ojokoro Housing Estate, Meiran, Ijaiye, Lagos, and reported that her
father would pay her after making love with her.
Nene
who is a primary three pupil, while narrating the incestuous incident to
newsmen said, “My daddy usually gives me money after touching my private part
or putting his penis in my mouth. He touches my private part when my mother is
outside washing clothes or when she is not in the house.”
According
to reports, the victim’s father, whose identity was given as Chukwuemeka
Odunzie, allegedly started defiling his daughter early last year. Narrating her
ordeal, the victim’s mother, Mrs Odunzie, said: “Last year, my son told me that
his younger sister was fond of playing with her private parts. It sounded strange
that a seven-year-old child would be doing that. I would talk to her, scold her
and sometimes beat her. There was a time I told my husband. All he said was
that if she was acting strangely I should take her to any of these white
garment churches.
I
was alarmed when one day, while we were in the sitting room, she started
touching and playing with herself.” Mrs Odunzie reportedly called her child
aside and asked her if anyone was touching her in her privates to which her
daughter responded saying her father was fond of playing with her private part
and would give her money after doing so. Mrs Odunzie stated that upon her
husband’s return from work, she confronted him about their daughter’s
accusations, but he denied; saying he would never commit such an act. She then
reported the case of defilement to the Ebenezer Divisional Police and the
policemen invited her husband for questioning.
“He
was arrested later by the police, who gave me a report to take my daughter to
the hospital. The doctor said there had been no penetration, but that there is
an opening in her vagina and advised that the victim be tested for infection. By
the time we came back from the hospital, the IPO said it was a family issue and
that we should go home and settle the case.”
“Members
of his family were shouting, saying that I had no right to report the case to
the police, that it was a family issue that should be treated as one. They
pressurized me till I withdrew the case, after which he promised not to defile
our daughter again.”
“After
I withdrew the case, my husband began to beat the children at the slightest
provocation. And at times, he would beat them for no reason. Two weeks ago, it
happened again. I asked her what she did for her father that made him give her
money without giving her siblings. That was when she said that daddy gave her
the money after touching her private part.”
“Her
siblings said it had been ongoing for a while and that they refused to tell me
because the last time they did, their daddy kept beating them. Her elder brother
said whenever I was not around, or I was outside washing clothes, daddy would
send him and his other siblings inside the bedroom, while he would ask the
victim to kneel down in between his legs and bend her head towards his manhood.”
“She
also confirmed that after touching her, daddy would put his penis in her mouth.
There was even a time my daughter was caught in the act with a four-year-old
boy, who is a neighbour’s child.”
The
accused, Chukwuemeka Odunzie, admitted that it was only once he abused his
daughter and that he was not doing it for diabolic reasons.
Source:
Daily post
