My Husband Raped My 16-year-old Daughter, Woman Tells Court

A trader and mother of three on Friday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her marriage to Olaniyi because he raped her 16-year-old daughter.

Testifying before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s President, Ayobami who lived at Liberty-Oke-ado area of Ibadan, said that her husband raped her 16-year-old daughter whom she had before getting married to Olaniyi.

“If I had known that Olaniyi was heartless, I would not have ventured into marrying him, let alone having children with him,” Ayobami told the court.

“I caught him red-handed raping my 16-year-old daughter that I had before I married him. “I told Olaniyi in clear tones that I have a female child before he agreed to marry me. What I saw was that he started disturbing the girl until he eventually raped her”.

Leadership, Saturday 16, March

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