A 35-year old bus driver, Adewale Adeleke has been arrested by the police for
defiling his two daughters. The little girls alleged that their father has been
having sex with them for two years. The
incident occurred in Ikotun, Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos, southwest
Nigeria.
Adeleke
was arrested and detained at the Ikotun Police Station over the act.
His
two daughters, who were in tears, confessed that their father had been sleeping
with them since 2011 without the knowledge of their mother who separated from
their father last year. The
girls are 13 and 10 years old. The eldest of them (name withheld) alleged that
their father started sleeping with her when she was 11 years and her sibling
when she was eight years old and that it was her father who deflowered her.
“Our
father sleeps with us frequently. The first time he slept with me, I saw blood
coming out of my private part and he used singlet to clean me up,” she alleged.
The
two girls are now under police protection while the police will arraign their
father at the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court later today. The
act was exposed when the Vice Chairman, Freelance Broadcast Association of
Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, Demola Olota, Mrs Esther Ogwu of the Esther Child
Rights Foundation and Mrs Mary Olasupo of the Compassionate Women arrested the
alleged culprit and handed him over to the police.
It
was gathered that Adeleke allegedly admitted that he had been defiling his
daughters since 2011 and that he should be forgiven. He
was quoted as saying that the devil pushed him to have sex with them and that
whenever he felt the urge for sex, he defiled his daughters.
Mother
of the children, Kemi Adeleke, who left her husband last year to Ibadan, Oyo
State was shattered when the news that her estranged husband had been sleeping
with their children was broken to her, saying she could not eat for two days. Kemi
said she left her husband because he was an irresponsible man.
She
said she is the one that feeds the family and even on top of that her husband
seriously beats her up.
According
to her, when she left for Ibadan, she left the children with her mother but her
husband went there to bring them back home. Executive
Director, Esther Child Rights Foundation, Mrs. Esther Ogwu, described the man
as wicked for defiling his two girls for two years, saying that her foundation
would ensure that justice is done in the matter.
She
stated that when she interviewed Adeleke at the police station, he admitted to
the act, adding that the foundation was trying to see if the children’s mother
could take custody of the children when she arrives from Ibadan
When
contacted, Lagos State Police Command, Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ngozi
Braide confirmed the arrest of the suspect, saying that he would be arraigned
in court soon.
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