But her mother, who claimed to have been suspecting that all was not well with her daughter, subjected the latter to questioning, in the process of which she opened up. Vanguard learned that after police and family members’ intervention, the suspect brought his daughter back home in December 2016. During her stay there, the victim was stopped from going to school, as she was assisting her father’s mistress to sell oil bean seed, otherwise known as ugba, at the Alaba International Market.
He reportedly took her to his mistress’ home at Ilogbo. Vanguard was informed that the suspect, identified simply as Adimawu, a commercial bus driver, took his daughter away from their Isheri apartment in May 2016, following a misunderstanding with his wife.
At the moment, the victim, who was alleged to have been forced out of school while in Junior Secondary School 1, had been treated for several sexually-transmitted diseases allegedly contracted during the said period. She said it started with her father and his mistress holding her legs apart for the woman’s son to rape her. “Investigation is still ongoing,” she added.When she was 9 months, my husband put his manhood in her mouth-Mother …I took my daughter away ‘cos her mother ran mad-Suspect By Evelyn Usman A 12-year-old girl, yesterday, gave a startling revelation of how her father and his step-son allegedly took turns to rape her for seven months in Ilogbo area of Lagos. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Idowu’s arrest. Whenever he did it, he would clean up the mess and warn me not to tell anybody.”Ī police source said the suspect also allegedly raped Victoria’s elder sister, who attended a college of education in Lagos State. My father deflowered me several months ago, and he had been raping me since then. Punch Metro learnt that Victoria told the police in her statement that her father deflowered her. I thought she was mentally unstable, until the man was arrested some days ago.” She said, “The girl came to me on the day she was fleeing home and said her father had been raping her. Speaking with Punch Metro, a neighbour, who did not want his name in print, said the victim had also reported to her while fleeing the house. She claimed the father started from the beginning of the year.” He would thereafter warn her not to tell anyone. She said anytime the family slept at night, the father would sneak into her room and rape her. “The victim said she could not bear it anymore as her father had raped her several times in the year. I reported the case at the police station in Badagry immediately and the man was arrested. The aunt thereafter contacted our organisation. He said, “The victim fled to a relative, who is her aunt in the Ikotun area. It was learnt that Victoria, who had been kept in government’s custody, was r*ped while her mother was bedridden.Ī social worker, identified only as Ibrahim, who reported the matter to the police, said the victim fled to her aunt in the Ikotun area.
Punch Metro reports that Idowu was arrested on Thursday, June 23, by the Badagry Police Division. The suspect was said to have travelled for a prayer meeting on the day his daughter fled home. It was learnt that the matter got to the attention of the police after the victim, Victoria (pseudonym), packed from her father’s apartment to put up with a family friend in the Ikotun area. He has however been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for commiting the act.Īccording to Punch Metro, the man committed the crime at the Aradagun, Badagry area of Lagos. A man identified as one Timothy Idowu, has been found out to have r*ped his own 15-year-old daughter.