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Police nabs 60-yr-old driver for defiling 12-yr-old daughter
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 60-year-old driver identified as Amusat Ashiru after he allegedly raped his 12-year-old daughter.
Reports say the suspect who is a resident of Efon Alaye Street, in the Akowonjo area of the state was arrested after his alleged abuse was reported to the police.
The victim had been living with her grandmother in Abeokuta, Ogun State, before she was brought to her father (who had two children with his first wife before putting the victim’s mother in a family way) in Lagos last April.
According to reports, the victim ran away from home and into the streets after she could no longer bear her father’s constant raping, where she met and begged a woman on the road for shelter.
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The state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said the matter was reported to the police after the woman probed the victim who revealed her father’s incestuous habit.
The Lagos CP said; “On June 24, 2018 around 9.40pm, the survivor begged a good Nigerian woman for a place to sleep. The woman asked her why she did not want to sleep in her family house and she told her that her father had been having sexual intercourse with her. The woman then reported to the police.
“Investigation into the case revealed that since the month of May 2018, the suspect had been having an incestuous relationship with his 12-year-old daughter. During interrogation, the suspect admitted that he committed the crime.”
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