A 40-year-old man, Ajayi Gbadegesin was on Thursday arraigned before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.
According to the state prosecutor, Mr. Babatunde Oguntemowo, the accused person had been having sexual intercourse with his daughter for 18 months.
Speaking before Justice Kudirat Jose, the prosecutor, said “On May 12, 2014, at about 8a.m, on my way to work at Bello Bus Stop, Iju, Lagos, I saw a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) begging a woman for money. I asked her why she was not in school and the victim narrated to me that she lost her mother, was staying with her step-mother in Agege, a suburb of Lagos and needed money to go back.
“She added that her father had been having sex with her for more than one and half years and that she almost died from the previous night’s experience, as her father had sex with her more than three times.
“When I asked the girl of her father’s whereabouts, she told me her father’s commercial bus was parked a few meters away from the bus stop and that he had gone to get fuel; so with the help of four other people, we forced the victim’s father to the police station in a tricycle when we accosted him.
“On getting to Red House Police Station at Iju Ishaga in Agege, I told the police what happened and they assigned a female officer to take the girl to hospital for test and treatment. I assisted them with N7, 500 that evening when I was showed the result from the hospital that confirmed that her father had sex with her,” the state prosecutor added.
Gbadegesin, a commercial bus driver, however, admitted having sex with his daughter.
“It was the devil’s work,” he added.
The chief judge adjourned the matter till October 6 for continuation of trial, ordering that the accused be remanded in Kirikiri Prison.
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