A
10-year-old girl who was sexually abused by her Father, has told a Lagos State
High Court sitting in Ikeja, how her father, Ajayi Gbadegesin, raped her three
times in one night, describing in tears, the horror she went through in the
hands of a man who brought her into the world.
The court, presided over by Justice
Kudirat Jose, also heard how the 40-year-old Gbadegesin, a commercial bus
driver, allegedly defiled the girl for
over 18 months, always threatening her with death if she dared divulge the
secret to anyone.
The case was brought to public
knowledge when one Babatope Adamolekun, saw the girl begging for alms
somewhere in Lagos and wanted to find out why she was not in school.
Adamolekun narrated how he met the
abused child:
"I was on my way to work at
about 8am, when, at the Bello Bus Stop, Iju, Lagos, I saw the 10-year-old girl
begging a woman for money.
I asked her why she was not in
school and the victim narrated to me that she lost her mother, was staying with
her step-mother in Agege, a suburb of Lagos and needed money to go back.
She added that her father had been
having sex with her for more than one and half years and that she almost died
from the previous night’s experience, as her father had sex with her more than
three times.
When I asked for her father's where about,
the girl told me he was a commercial bus driver and that his bus was parked not
too far away from the bus stop and that he had gone to get fuel.
I called on four people and when he
came back, we nabbed him and forced him into a tricycle and took him to the Red
House Police Station at Iju Ishaga, Agege.
On getting to the station, I told
the police what happened and they assigned a female officer to take the girl to
hospital for test and treatment.
I assisted them with N7, 500 that
evening when I was showed the result from the hospital that confirmed that her
father had sex with her. The DPO directed them to charge the matter to court
immediately after seeing the report.”
The rapist father, however,
confessed to sleeping with his daughter, blaming the devil for the act.
“I know I have committed a very
serious crime but it was the devil’s work,”
he pleaded.
Justice Jose promptly ordered that he be
remanded in the Kirikiri Prison while adjourning the case to October 6, for
judgement.
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