By Evelyn Usman, Monsuru Olowoopejo & Esther Onyegbula
LAGOS—A 34-year-old man, Kennedy Michael, has actually been arrested by police in Lagos for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old daughter.
Kennedy Michael… I don’t understand exactly what came over me.
The suspect, that was said to have actually been sleeping along with his daughter due to the fact that she joined primary 5, reportedly connived along with his live-in lover, Ijeoma Ndukwu, to terminate the pregnancy.
The suspect was additionally accused of defiling a neighbour’s 18-month-old baby, that was stored in his care.
A neighbour, that spoke about condition of anonymity, said: “Michael and his wife have actually been separated. He later brought his daughter to live along with him or her in Lagos.
“Yet we started noticing modifications in her and encouraged her to tell her father to take her to the hospital, where it was found that she was pregnant. The father reportedly told his live-in lover, Ijeoma Ndukwu, to aid him or her abort the pregnancy. This caused troubles in between them.
“As though that was not enough, he was alleged to have actually fingered a one-year and 6 months old infant in the very same compound. The child’s father reported the instance to police.”
Father of the kid allegedly molested, Uche, told policemen: “My wife found that our infant possessed a tear in her exclusive section as quickly as she preferred to bathe her. Prior to then, it was just Michael that was along with the infant inside his room.
“We took her to Mende Good health Centre, where doctors confirmed our fears. It was while there that a neighbour notified us that he was violating his daughter as well.”
Victim’s account
When accosted, the Junior Secondary School 2 girl, that confirmed that her father possessed slept along with her numerous times, disclosed that the last time he possessed sex along with her was July 8.
Asked why she did not confide in anybody concerning the defilement, the teenager said: “I can not tell anybody due to the fact that he threatened to kill me. My mother and my father are separated. I live along with my daddy and my step-mother, while my mother lives in Sagamu.
“My father threatened that I should not tell anyone concerning exactly what he was performing to me. He uses pressure to have actually sex along with me.”
Aggrieved neighbours were said to have actually cautioned the kid Abuse and Domestic Violence Agency in Alausa, Ikeja, from where police were brought in.
On his part, the suspect expressed regret over his actions, saying he did not understand exactly what came over him.
Docked
Meanwhile, he has actually been dragged Prior to Magistrate B. Osunsanmi. The prosecutor, Sergeant Olakunle Orebe, argued that the act was punishable under Section 137 of the 2011 Lagos Claim Criminal Law.
The magistrate, Osunsanmi denied Michael bail and purchased that he be remanded pending the legal tips from the Department of People Prosecutions, DPP.
Osunsanmi adjourned the instance till October 11 for further hearing.