Her words...
“It started in 2013 when I suddenly woke up one night and saw my husband removing the panties of my daughter. It was in the midnight. I wanted to shout but I wanted to see what he was up to. So, I pretended as if I didn’t see him because the room was relatively dark.
“When he pulled down her pant, he looked
around and when he felt convinced that everyone was deep asleep, he
stood up and moved to where the girl was and dipped his hand in her
private part. I screamed.
“To say I was shocked was to say the
least. He was shocked too because he didn’t know anyone was watching, so
he quickly stood up, pulled up his trousers and started beating me.”
“He beat me that night such that blood came out of my body. I didn’t
even know I was pregnant until that night and the pregnancy was about
two months old. I ran away from him for some time and I told my
relatives. But I had to go back because of the pregnancy and that was
when I had a set of twins for him.”
To Folake, her husband had turned a new
leaf and would never do such a despicable act again, but unknown to her,
other things had been going on without her knowledge. She said the
straw that broke the camel’s back happened on July 17, 2015 when she
caught him molesting her daughter again the same way he did before.
With her eyes soaked in tears, she said,
“I thought he had stopped until the night of July 17, 2015 around 1am.
It was a Friday. Rebecca was sleeping beside me but I saw him stand up,
he carried the girl to the other side of the bed. He didn’t know I was
awake. I had wanted to shout but I wanted to know what he was up to
again. So, he removed his trousers, turned his back at me and crawled to
where Rebecca was lying.
“He didn’t know I was looking at him. He
pulled down her panties and started inserting his finger in her private
part again. I thought I was dreaming. I screamed and continued
shouting. He was shocked and couldn’t talk. He was just looking. Then,
he went back to sleep.
“The following morning, I challenged him
why he was doing that to his own child. I know he is diabolical, so I
told him if his plan was to use my daughter for anything evil, he would
not prosper. That was what got him angry and he started beating me. He
said he would kill me. Then, my other children started crying and
shouting, and he didn’t stop until one of our neighbours intervened.
“The following day, I went to the church
to report to the shepherd of the church he was attending, Celestial
Church of Christ, somewhere around Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government.
The shepherd was shocked too but he pleaded with me to exercise
patience. Because of the fear of what he could do to us, we left the
house and moved to the church and we kept sleeping there.”
Folake explained that her estranged
husband, who is a motor mechanic in Ikotun area, came to the church,
beat her and forcefully took away their 17-month-old twins, whom she was
still breastfeeding, noting that the two girls had been in his custody
since then.
Her seven-year-old boy, identified
simply as Seun, who appeared sharp-minded, told our correspondent that
he used to see his father on top of his sister, maintaining that he had
caught him twice in the act of putting his hand “under” his sister. He
explained that his father used to rub his hands all over Rebecca’s body
but he barely knew what he was up to.
Disturbed by the incident, Folake said
she reported the assault at the Igando Police Station and to the
Executive Director, Esther Child Rights Foundation, Mrs. Esther Ogwu,
who had helped to monitor the case with the police. Folake added that
some of the policemen in the station even laughed at her when they heard
about the case.
Ogwu told Saturday PUNCH that
it would be in the interest of all if justice was done on the matter,
saying she would follow the matter to its conclusion.
She added, “We have involved the
National Human Rights Commission, Office of the Public Defender and the
Lagos State Ministry of Justice in the case so as to ensure justice. It
is increasingly becoming important for parents to pay due attention to
their children to guard them against assault.”
Even though a test conducted on the girl
at the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre at the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, confirmed that the girl had
been assaulted and her hymen broken, Folake noted that to her dismay,
Ademola had been released on bail by the police, and that the police in
Igando had been foot-dragging in taking the case to court.
Recounting how bad she had been battered
and assaulted by the husband, Folake noted that her worry was that the
man who had done both spiritual and psychological damage to her little
daughter should was about to go scot free.
“This girl’s private part has almost
become rotten and as young as she is, her breast is already coming out,
and she limps occasionally. I can never entrust my children into his
hands and that is why I’m worried about the twins that are with him.
They are also girls. I don’t want him to molest them too.
“He had afflicted us with charm but we
have been set free. The two children in school have been very retarded,
coupled with the fact that Rebecca has not been talking until she did
twice just two months ago. And since then, she has stopped again. She
just doesn’t talk and she urinates frequently. She should be in Nursery
One now but she seems not to be coping. Even her teachers are
complaining she had become a recluse and she keeps urinating all the
time.”
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.”
Such a perv!!
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