Residents of the Ikeja Lagos State were shocked when an 18-year-old girl, narrated how her biological father molested her for four years.
Folorunsho Oluwaseun was arraigned before a Special and Sexual Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly luring her daughter by telling her he would suck her breasts to make them as big as her mates.
Residents of the Ikeja Lagos State were shocked when an 18-year-old girl, narrated how her biological father molested her for four years.
Folorunsho Oluwaseun was arraigned before a Special and Sexual Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly luring her daughter by telling her he would suck her breasts to make them as big as her mates.
The victim who is the first prosecution witness in an ongoing trial involving her father and Lagos State before Justice Sybil Nwaka narrated to the court how the defendant ended up sexually molesting her from when she was 12 years old.
Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Babajide Boye, she informed the court that the father started abusing her sexually right from when she was 12 years old, at their one-room apartment in Ikorodu.
The victim who has not been named said the abuse started when she was in JSS 3 after her dad told her that her breasts were not as big as those of her mates and that he would help her suck them out with his mouth.
She said: “He asked me to sleep with him on the bed and he began to suck my breasts. The following day, I told my younger sister about the incident and she condemned it.
“The following week, he told me that I am not as fat as my mates and that he would pour sperm inside me so that I can be as fat. I allowed him have sex with me and thereafter, he gave me salt water to drink.”
The victim said her father continued to abuse her sexually and she hinted her younger sister who said it is a curse and that the bible condemns it.
According to her, “I said same to my dad, but he said it is not a curse because God knows that he does not have a wife. I attempted to stop him, but he denied me and my siblings food for days until I gave in again.
“He said if he continues to have sex with me, he will keep getting money to take care of us. My mum came but left again after about a month.
“He stopped when she was around and started again when she left. I didn’t tell my mum because he said I should not tell her.
“We usually go to the Apostolic Church camp every year and he told me that his sister reported him to his mum and rather than rebuking him, she told him not to get me pregnant. I told my sister and she said my dad’s family don’t like us at all.
“In 2016, my mother came back to stay with us and caught us one night, when my father was trying to have sex with me. She screamed and my father threatened to kill her.”
The girl also informed the court that thereafter, her mother took her and her siblings to Ibadan, where she was formerly residing.
She continued: “I was teaching in a small school in Ibadan and we used to call him to send us money, but he will say he won’t until we come back to Ikorodu and I didn’t want to go back.
“So I went to the proprietress of the school where I teach in Ibadan, asking for salary increment, that the money was too small for all of us to live on. She asked of my dad and I told her everything I went through in the hands of my father.
“She said she knows someone who can help me at Justice Development Peace Commission at Basorun, Ibadan. I told them all that happened and they said they will help me, but that I have to come to Lagos and they gave us a number to call at Alausa, Ikeja.
“I was referred to Mirabel Centre to run a test. After the test, we went back to the Police and we later went to arrest my father in Ikorodu.”
Presenting her evidence before the court, the victim’s mother said she left her husband after he accused her of spiritually impending his progress.
She said that she was unaware of everything that happened to her daughter as she never confided in her until she caught the father in the act and left with her kids after he refused to accept or show any form of repentance.
Justice Nwaka adjourned the case till June 21 for continuation of trial.
