Girl Narrates How Father Abused Her Sexually For 2 Years

A 16-year-old rape survivor yesterday told to a Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja how her 43-year-old biological father, Emmanuel Odega, defiled her on several occasions.

The survivor, who  testified in the ongoing trial of her father, told the trial judge, Justice Ramon Oshodi, that her father started defiling her when she was 14 years old.

While being led in evidence by state prosecutor, Ms Bukola Okeowo, she alleged that her father claimed that the “holy spirit” instructed him to have sexual intercourse with her.

She said, “I was 14 years old when the incident happened. It initially started with him touching my body. When I noticed this, I moved my body from him. I told my twin brother about it the next morning but he did not believe me.

The next day, he had sex with me at night. I could not shout or do anything because my father threatened me.

“At that night he woke me up and told me that holy spirit told him to have sex with me. I thought he was pulling my legs but when he realised I was not ready to submit myself that was when he forcefully had sex with me.

“He continued to do so after we moved from where we were and we relocated to a wooden short let in Badore, Ajah.