A seven-year-old girl (names withheld)
has narrated how her father paid her after sexually abusing her at their
Ojokoro Housing Estate, Meiran, Ijaiye, Lagos, residence.
The primary three pupil said: “My daddy
usually gives me money after touching my private part or putting his
Joystick in my mouth. He touches my private part when my mother is
outside washing clothes or when she is not in the house.”
The victim’s father, identified 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 will 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.
“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.
She confesses to mother
“Immediately, I called her inside the
room and asked her what the problem was. I asked her if anyone was
fiddling with her private parts. She said it was her father that always
touched her private parts and that after touching her private parts, he
would give her money.
“I confronted my husband when he
returned from work but he denied vehemently. I reported a case of
defilement to Ebenezer Divisional Police and the policemen invited my
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 virginal and advised that the victim be tested for infection.
“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 virginal and advised that the victim be tested for infection.
Family pressure
“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.
“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 tangible 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.
“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.
“He puts it in my mouth”
“Her 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 Joystick 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.”
“She also confirmed that after touching her, daddy would put his Joystick 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.”
In his defense, the victim’s father,
Chukwuemeka Odunzie, admitted that it was only once he abused his
daughter and that he was not doing it for occult reasons.
Reacting to the issue, the Co-coordinator, Project Alert, Josephine Effah Chukwuma, said: “Apart from ensuring that the law takes it course, the main task is how to rehabilitate this little girl, whose life has been messed up by her father.
Reacting to the issue, the Co-coordinator, Project Alert, Josephine Effah Chukwuma, said: “Apart from ensuring that the law takes it course, the main task is how to rehabilitate this little girl, whose life has been messed up by her father.
“This is because the abuse was not a
one-off thing as the victim had become so accustomed to the act, that
when she feels the urge and there is no one to touch her, she touches
herself.
“There is need to rehabilitate her and her siblings, who watched.”
Culled from Vanguard
“There is need to rehabilitate her and her siblings, who watched.”
Culled from Vanguard
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