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Man impregnates only daughter
06 Oct 2014 at 13:22hrs | Views
A MAN identified as Segun has allegedly impregnated his only daughter, a 16-year-old girl.
The 42-year-old man allegedly asked her to come and live with him thirteen years after he lost custody of her after he divorced the girl's mother.
After she had moved in in he threatened her with a sword and then raped her.
The girl reported the matter to her stepmother who lived in a different house but she didn't take the matter seriously.
Te girl said: "During Easter celebration on April 18, 2014 he had sex with me again. All this while I didn't know I was pregnant because I had my last menstruation in December 2013. My stepmother suspected that I was pregnant and took me to a clinic at Igbeti where a test showed I was pregnant."
Sunday Sun gathered that The matron of the clinic informed the victim's grandfather that his son had impregnated the daughter.
The suspect denied the allegation and began mistreating the girl.
On what followed thereafter, the victim said: "The case was reported at the police station on April 30, 2014 and I started living with my paternal grandfather.
"I was taken to General Hospital Igbeti, where my mother pleaded with the doctor to abort the pregnancy, but the doctor said he would not do it.
"After I delivered the baby and my grandmother was told the baby looks like father, my father ran away."
He was eventually caught and arrested.
The 42-year-old man allegedly asked her to come and live with him thirteen years after he lost custody of her after he divorced the girl's mother.
After she had moved in in he threatened her with a sword and then raped her.
The girl reported the matter to her stepmother who lived in a different house but she didn't take the matter seriously.
Te girl said: "During Easter celebration on April 18, 2014 he had sex with me again. All this while I didn't know I was pregnant because I had my last menstruation in December 2013. My stepmother suspected that I was pregnant and took me to a clinic at Igbeti where a test showed I was pregnant."
Sunday Sun gathered that The matron of the clinic informed the victim's grandfather that his son had impregnated the daughter.
The suspect denied the allegation and began mistreating the girl.
On what followed thereafter, the victim said: "The case was reported at the police station on April 30, 2014 and I started living with my paternal grandfather.
"I was taken to General Hospital Igbeti, where my mother pleaded with the doctor to abort the pregnancy, but the doctor said he would not do it.
"After I delivered the baby and my grandmother was told the baby looks like father, my father ran away."
He was eventually caught and arrested.
Source - 247 Nigeria News Update