A 16-year-old teenager (name withheld) who was raped by her 47-year-old father identified as Eromosele Mahmud has narrated how she was raped her father over a period of five years in Rivers state.
This is coming barely hours after operatives of the Rivers state police command arrested a 47-year-old man identified as Eromosele Mahmud for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old daughter.
Narrating how she was raped by her father, the 16-year-old teenager told officials of Rivers state government that her father becomes hostile towards her and would stop paying her school fees if she refuses to have sex with him.
“It was my father who impregnated me; he started having sex with me when I was 12-year-old till now. The first time he came and lay with me on the bed, when I tried to scream, he told me to shut up that my mates were doing the same thing and anytime I refused to allow him, he would not buy anything for me and he would refuse to pay my school fees.” she said.
On the counterpart, the suspect, Mahmud who is a single parent and father of three from the Esako West Local Government Area of Edo State but resident in Port Harcourt confessed to the police that he has been raping his own daughter since she was 12.
Confessing to the police, Mahmud revealed that his daughter began enjoying their sexual intercourse and was the one who initiates it sometimes and added that he doesn’t know what pushed him to start sleeping with his own child.
The suspect, Mahmud in his words;
This is a battle I have tried to fight over the years and it seems to be much bigger than me. I am not going to withdraw any fact or truth as far as this case is concerned. If this is the only way my daughter can be liberated if I go to prison, then it is good. My happiness is that I am relieved even as I speak to you now.
I can’t really remember when it started, but like I told you, it’s more of a spiritual thing. It is very unusual for a father to be sleeping with his own daughter. I am not a party to abortion, so whatever it is, the social welfare people and other government officials involved in this matter know the best way to handle this pregnancy. As a father, I cannot support abortion for my daughter, what if anything happens to her in the process.
I don’t rape her regularly; it happens once or twice in a year; she used to be very cooperative, even when I don’t want it, she tries to force herself on me.”
Reacting to the sad incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state said the suspect, Mahmud would be charged to court once investigations have been concluded.