A 14-year-old girl (name
withheld), has narrated how her father allegedly got her pregnant after having
sex with her countless times.
Narrating her ordeal while
testifying before an Akure High Court, the victim stated that her 41-year-old father
identified as Ojowi Johnson, had for almost two years been
committing incest with her following the death of her mother.
According to her, the father, who
is an automobile mechanic, had threatened to kill her if she ever confided in
anyone about the sordid relationship between them.
She added that the fear of his
threat made her keep mute about the act until she summoned the courage to
report to the police.
“My father had taken me to one
“mummy Ayo” in Ifon who carried out an abortion on me when I got pregnant for
him.
“In April 2018, I summoned the
courage and went to report him at the ‘A’ Division in Owo, which led to his
arrest.”
Corroborating the claims of the
victim, the prosecution team led by a state counsel, A.M Kayode, told the court
that the accused, who is a widower, committed the crime at his residence in
Clerk quarter, Ijebu Owo in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State where he
was steadily having unlawful sex with his daughter.
The state counsel also alleged
that the accused after putting his daughter in a family way took her to Ifon,
his home town in order to procure an abortion for her.
Also testifying, one Inspector
Kareem Lukman, stated that a case of rape and procuring illegal abortion was
reported at their station by the girl against her father and that the case was
transferred to him for investigation.
Lukman explained that the accused
person was subsequently arrested, while he gave a voluntary statement after due
caution.
In the statement, the IPO said
the accused person admitted to have slept with his daughter and that it only
happened five times.
Meanwhile, Ojovi, who was
arraigned before the court on a two-count charge of rape and illegal abortion,
pleaded “not guilty” to the charges levelled against him.
Ojovi testified that “I am not
the one who put her in the family way. My daughter is wayward, which was why I
had helped her to get rid of the pregnancy so that she would not bring shame
upon the family.”
According to Ojowi, the mother of
the victim died when the girl was seven years old and she was later taken to
Port-Harcourt to live with her paternal aunt.
He said that his sister had
returned the girl some few years later, with an accusation that she was
wayward, stressing that her waywardness and unseriousness had led to her to
still be in primary school at age 14.
The judge, Justice Samuel Bola,
subsequently adjourned the case till November 29, 2019, for judgment.
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