23rd November, 2010
Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) has said that a 58-year-old father, who allegedly impregnated his 14-year-old daughter is currently being detained.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 58-year old farmer and the daughter were paraded before journalists on Nov. 15 by Deputy Police Spokesman, DSP Samuel Jinadu in his Ikeja office.
The police said that the man forcefully had canal knowledge of his daughter and has now delivered a baby girl from the relationship.
Mr Godwin Morka, head of NAPTIP, Lagos zone, told NAN, that the agency decided to prosecute the man to serve as deterrent to other men, who think they can take advantage of their daughters.
Morka said that the man would be charged to court as soon as investigation was completed.
Speaking with NAN, the daughter said that whenever she refused to sleep with her father he beat her.
“If I refuse to sleep with my father he will beat me. One day he came home and saw me with a boy of my age, my father plugged a pressing iron and used it on my face, telling me not to associate with any boy so that our secret will not be exposed.
“He sleeps with me twice every week except when I am menstruating; my twin brother always leave the room whenever my father sleeps with me,†she added.
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