Seven-year-old Ngozi (pseudonym) is no longer a child. Her innocence has been stolen by her 41-year-old father, Emeka Igwe, who not only raped her, but got her addicted to masturbation.
It was gathered that anytime Ngozi felt sexual urge and her father was not around to stimulate her, she would invite boys into her parents’ apartment in the Federal Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos State, to “play with her private parts”. The victim’s mother first detected the act in January, 2015, and after reporting to policemen at the Ojokoro Police Division, the case was dismissed as a family matter.
The police reportedly threatened to detain her, while her husband’s family accused her of inciting her four children against their family. Emeka, a trader, allegedly continued to defile his daughter in their apartment until August, when the matter got to the attention of the estate executive.
Continue to read moreThe Orlu, Imo State indigene, was apprehended and reported to the Project Alert on Violence against Women, a non-governmental organisation, from where the case got to the Area F Police Command.
Ngozi, who is in primary 3, told Punch Metro that her father had been assaulting her since 2014. She explained that after inserting his fingers into her private parts, he would press her head down and force his manhood into her mouth, adding that he always gave her N10 after the act. She said her nine-year-old brother, Emeka, sometimes watched from a window.
She said, “My dad does it anytime; in the morning and in the afternoon. My mum always goes to the market. He will then give me N10 to buy something. “He will open his leg and press my head down and put his private parts into my mouth. After that, he will say I should scratch his body. He will now carry me down and put his fingers in my private parts again.
“He started it last year when my mother was washing clothes and I went to buy something. He asked me to come into the parlour and told Ebuka, Chioma and Chibuike (her siblings) to go into the bedroom. I did not know that Ebuka was watching from the window.”
Her mother, Endurance, told Punch Metro she had been married to the suspect for more than 10 years, without knowing he was capable of such act. The 40-year-old said her first child, Ebuka, had been telling her that Ngozi masturbated, but she never believed it. “The first time she did it in my presence was sometime in January, while I was preparing a meal and I saw her. I beat her up and asked her to stop it because it was bad.
“I later told my husband my observation and he said nothing was wrong with her. “My four-year-old neighbour’s son came to our apartment and Ngozi took her to our bedroom and asked the boy to put his fingers in her private parts. It was the boy’s mother that saw them. “I called her and asked if anybody had been playing with her private parts and she said no.”
Endurance said Ebuka later told her what had been happening between father and daughter. The other children were said to have corroborated Ebuka’s account, before Ngozi also confessed to her mother.
She said she confronted her husband with the allegation, adding that he got angry and started beating the children for every slight offence.
She said when she could no longer bear it, she reported at the Alakuko Police Station, from where she was referred to the Ojokoro Police Division. A test was conducted on the victim at the General Hosptal, Ile Epo, which showed there was an opening in Ngozi’s private parts. Endurance said she was advised to run an infection test on her daughter, before her in-laws asked her to withdraw the case.
She said the Divisional Police Officer at Ojokoro threatened to lock her up.
Ngozi, who is in primary 3, told Punch Metro that her father had been assaulting her since 2014. She explained that after inserting his fingers into her private parts, he would press her head down and force his manhood into her mouth, adding that he always gave her N10 after the act. She said her nine-year-old brother, Emeka, sometimes watched from a window.
She said, “My dad does it anytime; in the morning and in the afternoon. My mum always goes to the market. He will then give me N10 to buy something. “He will open his leg and press my head down and put his private parts into my mouth. After that, he will say I should scratch his body. He will now carry me down and put his fingers in my private parts again.
“He started it last year when my mother was washing clothes and I went to buy something. He asked me to come into the parlour and told Ebuka, Chioma and Chibuike (her siblings) to go into the bedroom. I did not know that Ebuka was watching from the window.”
Her mother, Endurance, told Punch Metro she had been married to the suspect for more than 10 years, without knowing he was capable of such act. The 40-year-old said her first child, Ebuka, had been telling her that Ngozi masturbated, but she never believed it. “The first time she did it in my presence was sometime in January, while I was preparing a meal and I saw her. I beat her up and asked her to stop it because it was bad.
“I later told my husband my observation and he said nothing was wrong with her. “My four-year-old neighbour’s son came to our apartment and Ngozi took her to our bedroom and asked the boy to put his fingers in her private parts. It was the boy’s mother that saw them. “I called her and asked if anybody had been playing with her private parts and she said no.”
Endurance said Ebuka later told her what had been happening between father and daughter. The other children were said to have corroborated Ebuka’s account, before Ngozi also confessed to her mother.
She said she confronted her husband with the allegation, adding that he got angry and started beating the children for every slight offence.
She said when she could no longer bear it, she reported at the Alakuko Police Station, from where she was referred to the Ojokoro Police Division. A test was conducted on the victim at the General Hosptal, Ile Epo, which showed there was an opening in Ngozi’s private parts. Endurance said she was advised to run an infection test on her daughter, before her in-laws asked her to withdraw the case.
She said the Divisional Police Officer at Ojokoro threatened to lock her up.
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