A
Benin City-based housewife, simply identified as Stella, has narrated
how Osaro, her 55 year-old husband, defiled their nine year-old daughter
on Christmas day and has impregnated another, 17.
Stella who
narrated her ordeal to PM News, at Ogida police station in Benin
where the suspected incest is being detained by the police, said he had
earlier impregnated his 17 year-old step daughter whom she had in a
previous relationship.
She disclosed she deserted her matrimonial
home with her children when he committed the incest-taboo by
impregnating the older daughter but later decided to return after he
claimed to have repented of his sins.
“This my husband wanted to
sleep with my second daughter but he denied. He later succeeded in
sleeping with my other daughter. After impregnating the girl, he begged
me severally to forgive him. He started attending church with me and
confessed what he has done. The church members begged me and I accepted
him. He has already paid my bride price so I went back.
“After we
settled back, my husband started with his own daughter. The little girl
told me what she was going through in the hands of her father. I asked
my husband but he denied. He said he has stopped the act since he
repented.
“One afternoon, I caught him on top of our daughter. I
didn’t realize it was my daughter he was making love to. I went to the
church and vowed that I cannot continue with the marriage. I was tired
of forgiving him all the time.”
“On Christmas Day, he drove me
outside at about 8:00 p.m. He was alone inside with the children. The
next day, my daughter told me what he did to her. When I decided to
check my daughter’s vaginal, he decided to beat me up but neighbours
intervened.”
The victim (names withheld), while narrating how her
father defiled her to journalists, asked that her father be jailed by
the police.
