The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kogi Command, has arrested a 41-year-old father for allegedly d£filing his 16-year-old daughter.
Speaking after parading the suspect on Wednesday at NSCDC Command Headquarters, Lokoja, the state’s Commandant, Ahmad Gandi, said the. command received a complaint lodged by an NGO on May 5.
According to him, the complaint was lodged on a case of defilement, r+p£ and incest in which the suspect is the biological father of the victim. The commandant said that the ab¥sive act was on for three years from 2020 to 2023, since when the victim was 16 years old. Gandi said that the younger sister of the victim advised her that they should either end it all or k#ll their father to free themselves from the ab¥siv£ act.
The commandant said that the father had admitted committing the act, saying he would be charged to court after concluding the investigation. The victim told newsmen that she had been s£x¥ally ab¥s£d by her father since 2020 after her mother left home.
“It happened in 2020 when my mum left home and since then my Dad had been s£x¥ally ab¥sing me. In 2021, my father impregnat£d me and took me to a clinic where they ab%rted the pregnancy I had for him. I couldn’t leave the house because of my younger sister as I was afraid my father could do the same thing to my sister.
After ab%rting the pregnancy he continued the s£x¥al ab¥se until I couldn’t take it anymore, which I have to report to an NGO who reported the case to NSCDC,” the victim narrated.
On his part, the suspect admitted to having committed the act, that he actually dis-flowered his daughter, saying he was hypnotized after his wife left him in 2020. “I actually committed the act but I don’t know how I did it. I love my wife very well; I begged her to come back home but she never did for the past three years. It is the same stage I was in when my mother left my father that my wife left my children for me and went away. I love my wife but she never comes back to me”, he said.
