It is unbelievable. It sounds
strange, though this is not the first time such would be happening. Each time
the incident occurs, it sounds untrue. But it has happened again and there is a
living being serving as a confirmation. A bouncing baby boy named
Moses Okiki Bolutiwatife. The ‘it’ is incest committed by a 42-year-old Segun
Oderinde against his 16-year-old daughter (name withheld)
Crime Reports learnt that Oderinde
and the mother of his daughter, one Funmilayo (37), divorced each other 13
years ago when the girl was just three years old. The young girl was in
her mother’s custody until when September 2013 when Oderinde insisted on taking
his daughter into custody. Not only that, he insisted that his daughter should
be sleeping in the same room with him.
Things however took a turn,
according to reports, when on December 25, 2013, the teenager’s sleep was
rudelyinterrupted by her father who came home drunk at about 1 a.m. asked
her to get up. The girl’s eyes widened with shock and fear when her father
brashly told her to remove her dress.
As expected, the girl refused her
father’s abnormal command but quickly complied when she saw him brandishing a
well-sharpened, glittering cutlass, with a threat to sever her head in a jiffy
if she was not fast in obeying his instruction. He succeeded in having sexual
intercourse with her, albeit forcefully.
Unable to comprehend her father’s
action, the girl reported the incident to one of her stepmothers, who promised
to find out if her claim was true. Whether the woman asked her husband or not,
the girl did not know.
Her ordeal however continued when
the man had sex with her again in March and April 2014, unknown to her that she
was already pregnant with the first encounter. When she started feeling weak by
the end of April, she was said to have been taken to Ronke Clinic, Igbeti, by
her stepmother who is a nurse and was confirmed to be pregnant by one Mrs Elizabeth Aremu.
The proprietress of the clinic
reportedly informed the girl’s father and her paternal grandfather of the
result of the pregnancy test carried out on the girl and her confession which
indicted her father. Oderinde was said to have denied the allegation and
started maltreating his daughter until the case was reported at the Igbeti
Division of Oyo State Police Command on April 30, 2014.
When the report was received, The
Divisional Police Officer, Mr Oyelere Ishola, was said to have taken the girl
to General Hospital, Igbeti where the pregnancy was re-confirmed. She was
referred to a diagnostic centre to ascertain the duration of the pregnancy, and
the ultrasound scan done at one Bethsaida Hospital, Igbeti on May 1, 2014
indicated that the girl was four months and two weeks pregnant. She was given
the second week of September 2014 as the expected delivery date.
Crime Reports further learnt that
the DPO and the Divisional Crime Officer had to take it upon themselves toregister
the teenager for ante-natal care at the General Hospital and while
investigation was ongoing, Oderinde, who had initially denied having carnal
knowledge of his daughter, confessed to have committed the act but denied
impregnating his daughter.
Based on the confession, Crime
Reports gathered that on May 30, the incestuous man was arraigned inMagistrate
Court, Kisi on charge number MKS/8C/2014 on a three-count charge including
rape. He was thereafter remanded in prison custody.
The teenager was reported to have
delivered a healthy baby boy on September 9, 2014 and on September
16, the baby was named Moses Okiki Boluwatife Oderinde. This means that
Oderinde is the father and grandfather of his daughter’s baby!
Speaking with Crime Reports from
her mother’s house where she had been staying since she was discharged from
hospital, the teenage mother narrated her story thus:
“I was living with my mother until
2013 when my father asked me to come and live with him. On December 25, 2013,
my father woke me up and asked to remove my clothes but I refused. He drew a
cutlass and threatened to kill me if I did not do his bidding. Afraid, I
removed my clothes and he forcefully had sex with me. He was the first man to
sleep with me because I had never had sex before then.
“The following day, I reported to
one of his two wives who was a nurse and she promised to ask him, but I don’t
know whether she eventually did. In March, 2014, he did the same thing again
and I ran to his second wife’s house and reported to her. She asked me to swear
to an oath with a bible but I refused since I knew I was saying the truth. I
started sleeping in her apartment.
“In April, he came to tell me to
return to his apartment to do some things for him but I refused to go. His wife
however put pressure on me to answer my father’s call since he wanted me to do
some things for him at home. I followed him after much pressure.
“Unfortunately for me, on Saturday
preceding Easter celebration, precisely on April 18, he had sex with me again.
All the while, I did not know I was pregnant. I had my last menstruation
in December 2013.
“My stepmother suspected I was
pregnant and took me to one Mrs Aremu who confirmed the pregnancy. The case was
reported at the police station and I started living with my paternal
grandfather until I fell into labour. My mother wanted the pregnancy to be
aborted but the doctor said he could not do it.
“After I was delivered of the baby
and my grandfather was told that the baby has a striking resemblance with my
father, he ran away and has not been seen since then.
“Since the confirmation of
the pregnancy, the DPO and the DCO were the ones who purchased baby
things and other items that I would need during and after delivery. They also
paid my hospital bill. I now stay with my mother and she is helping me to take
care of the baby.”
The girl appealed to members of the
public to come to her aid so that her education would not be stalled. “I want
to return to school. I was in JSS2 when this happened but I don’t want it to
mark the end of my academic pursuit,” the girl said.
Source: Nigerian Tribune..
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