Four-year-old Rebecca
(not her real name) was a normal baby when she was born. She was bubbling with
life, but following several sexual assaults on her by her 37-year-old father,
identified as Ademola, little Rebecca has lost her voice. She has not been able
to talk for the past few weeks.
She looked forlornly
and occasionally fell asleep in the arms of her mother, Folake, 32, who was
visibly distressed as she explained to Saturday Punch how her husband of 14
years had been molesting their daughter.
Blessed with four
children; three girls, including a set of twins, and a boy, she reminisced
about how they used to live as one (happy) family in the Igando area of Lagos
before things took a grim turn and she caught her husband committing one of the
most gruesome crimes against their second daughter – sexual assault.
She noted that apart
from having sexual intercourse with the little girl on several occasions, she
had caught her husband inserting his finger into her private part more than
once, all of which had traumatised Rebecca and made her a shadow of her real
self.
The unfortunate
incident seems to be tearing the family further apart as she has not only moved
out of the house; she has vowed never to return, whilst accusing her husband of
being diabolical.
Meanwhile, when Saturday Punch contacted Ademola over the allegations
levelled against him by his wife and son, he denied, saying, his wife was
looking for ways to move out of his house, thus, she had to “cook up lies
against him.”
He added, “She is lying
against me. I didn’t do any of those things they were saying. She has seen
someone else she wants to marry and that was why she left the house.”
The Divisional Police
Officer, Igando Police Station, Mr. Segun Fagbohun, told Saturday Punch that he had transferred Ademola and
the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department at Yaba for further
investigation.
-Punch
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