Man impregnants 12-yr-old daughter

Forty- five- year old Philip Ben from Akwa Ibom State who impregnated his 12 –year- old daughter has alleged that the daughter tempted him severally by wearing skimpy dresses and lying naked on bed whenever he was around at home.
The unremorseful father who escaped being lynched by women at the Oduduwa police annex, Ikeja, during his parade before newsmen yesterday, said he had sex several times with the daughter.
But the daughter (names with held) told Daily Champion that her father drugged her and broke her virginity at a tender age
Speaking with our correspondent, the suspect said he did not want to abort the pregnancy since it has become a public knowledge. He said he was prepared to appease the gods of their land than to abort the pregnancy.
"I don’t mind the shame but I cannot abort the pregnancy. I am not the only one that has been making love with her.
"I was tempted and the devil got me. The thing started one day when I came back from work and met her lying naked on top of bed and I was tempted to have sex with her," he said, admitting that the last time he had intercourse with her was last March.
But the 12 year old daughter denied that the sex was willful. She said the problem started the day her father bought her a drink and after taking it she became unconscious. She said when she woke up the next day she observed some semen on her private parts.
She said four days later, the father came and apologised to her and informed her that he was the one that made her to be unconscious.
She said her father had turned her to a sex machine by having sex with her almost every night.
She said the father divorced her mother and married another wife who later died after giving birth to twins. "I was staying in the village before my father came and picked me at the age of seven to take care of the twins. It was when I came and started staying with him that he began having sex with me."
She appealed to individuals and corporate organisations to assist her by taking her away from the father.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Lagos State, Mr. Frank Mba, said the suspect would be charged to court for incest.
Meanwhile, an eight-year-old groundnut hawker has been reportedly assaulted by an unknown rapist while hawking her wares at the Sabo area of Ibadan.
The spokeswoman of the Oyo State Police Command, Ms Olabisi Okuwobi, said in Ibadan yesterday that the victim’s father, Mr. Samuel Agbaf, reported the incident at the Sabo Police station.
Okuwobi said the victim was taken to the police station with blood-stained pants and was later rushed to the old Adeoyo State Hospital, Yemetu, Ibadan, for treatment.
The PPRO said in a related development, a 30-year-old nursery school teacher had been arrested by the police in Ibadan for allegedly inserting his finger into the private part of a 12-year-old pupil of his school.
She said the victim’s father, Mr. Olawale Omoniyi, reported the incident to the police.
Okuwobi said Omoniyi brought his daughter to the police station and reported that the teacher inserted his finger into his daughter’s honeypot with force and later promised to marry her. She said the victim had been taken to the hospital for treatment.
The spokeswoman also reported the case of a 33-year-old man who was accused of defiling a four-year-old girl.
Okuwobi said the girl’s father, Mr. Victor Adeyemo, told the police that the suspect sent the girl’s brother on an errand to buy beans cake for him.
"Before the victim’s brother could come back, the suspect had lured her inside his room, laid her on his bed and defiled her. The suspect used his male organ to push the victim’s pant aside where he started using his manhood to defile the little girl,’’ Okuwobi quoted the victim’s father as saying in his statement.
The spokeswoman said the victim later reported the incident to her elder brother who called their mother on phone.
She said the suspect had been arrested while the victim had been taken to the hospital for examination and treatment.