His reason for
sleeping with his own blood daughter was simple: she resembles her mother, his
late wife. This was all the excuse a 42-year-old petty trader, Emmanuel Ubom
needed to commit incestuous taboo by raping his 15-year-old daughter in their
one-room apartment at Etegbin,Ojo-Lagos,Nigeria,serially. It was also alleged that he got her pregnant
severally and terminated them with multiple abortions.
Hear him:’ I
can’t deny the fact that I used to sleep with my daughter .I don’t know what
came over me; it is the devil’s work. Since I lost my wife five years ago, I
have been so lonely and sexually starved .I don’t know how it all started, but
my first daughter looks more like her mother .She possesses the physique and
charming looks of her mother. I am so ashamed of my self; I just pray my
daughters would forgive me, likewise the spirit of their dead mother,”Ubom
pleaded before the court
The police prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent Friday Ezeh,
condemned the heinous act of the accused and urged the court to award the
accused the appropriate punishment so as to serve as deterrent to other wayward
fathers and guardians who are sexually molesting their daughters and wards
under their care.
“This act is becoming more rampant in our present day society,
and if severe punishment is not handed to offenders to serve as scapegoat to others,
the message wouldn’t be driven home properly. Where I come from, this very
barbaric act of father forcefully having carnal knowledge of the daughter could
lead to ex-communication or total ostracizing of a man if found guilty.Ubom
shouldn’t be pitied, he argued”.
After hearing from the defendant and the prosecution,the
presiding Magistrate, Mr.T.O.Shomade-after tongue-lashing the shameless father
for taking advantage of his daughter’s innocence by turning her into a sex slave-sentenced him
to three years imprisonment without an option of fine.
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