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Police arrest bricklayer for allegedly r*ping his teenage daughter in Akwa Ibom

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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command Friday confirmed the arrest of a bricklayer, Godwin Jeremiah, for allegedly raping his 13-year-old daughter, Miss Emem Godwin Jeremiah.

Jeremiah was arrested by a police team led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Eket Police Division, Sunday Digha and assisted by the wife of the Eket Local Government Area Chairman wife, Mrs. Bright Archibong.

The girl, who is a JSS 1 student, told journalists her father regularly had sex with her at night.

She said: “My father forcefully abused me sexually beginning from January 2020. This occurs almost on a daily basis, irrespective of my resistance due to pains and injury I sustained from the ungodly act. I initially reported the case to my stepmother who confronted my father but she was beaten and fled from my father’s house.

“When the incident was becoming unbearable to me, I ran and reported to the police which led to his first arrest. But due to the intervention of my aunty, who did not believe my story, he was released on bail.

After his release from the police cell, I did not have any option than to return to the house and stay with my father. The matter continued from bad to worst.

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“It was the darkest moment in my life, this time my father did not allow me to sleep, he forcefully abused me throughout the night and it was coming on a daily basis. Since nobody was there to help, I decided to run away from my father’s house to an unknown destination, only to find a compassionate mother, Mrs. Bright Archibong, who decided to fight on my behalf.”

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