The suspect, Ashiru Amusa, after his
arrest, insisted that devil took possession of him and made him to repeatedly
defile his daughter.
The violation of the girl was a
neighbour, who discovered and dashed to the police to blow the whistle.
Amusa, a driver, with a monthly
salary of N35, 000, lives at Akowonjo Shasha area of the metropolis with his
second wife and his children. The victim is a product of his first marriage.
Although Amusa was accused of
repeatedly violating his daughter, he, however, insisted that he had sex with
her only once. He added that he did in April this year and after that, never
tried it again.
His words: “My daughter’s mother no
longer lives with me because we were never married. I impregnated her by
mistake. I’m now married to a woman, whom I really love. I have two wonderful
children with her. On the fateful day of the incident, my wife went to the
market. I honestly didn’t know what came over me. immediately sighted my
daughter that day, I started having this sexual urge towards her. I then defiled
her.”
Amusa further added: “During that
time, I was not myself. It was like the devil possessed me. I was not drunk and
I was physically and mentally alright. It just had to be the devil that
triggered me to commit such a sinful act. I wish it had never happened. I
feel so ashamed.”
The woman, who alerted the police
about the defilement, disclosed that she got to know about the crime after the
victim ran to her one day and begged her to allow her sleep in her home.
The woman said: “The time was around
9:40pm when she came to me. It was when I asked why, that she narrated her
ordeal. She insisted that her dad had repeatedly defiled her.”
According to investigator, the
victim had been separated from her mother since birth. She had been living with
her grandmother in Abeokuta. She went to live with her father in Lagos on April
22, 2018. It was alleged that since then, he had been sexually molesting her.
The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Edgal Imohimi said: “This case goes to show that with our community
policing and safety partnership project, criminals have no hiding place. It
does not matter who they are, how highly or lowly placed they may be. The truth
is that Lagosians bond with us in our efforts to checkmate criminals in the
state.”
The victims had been taken to
LASUTH, Mirabel Center, for further medical examination.
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