Teenager Narrates How Convicted Father Raped Her Multiple Times

But for the involution of the Federación Internacional de Abogadas – Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), the raping-spree and battle connected a 14-year-old insignificant successful Junior Secondary School (JSS2) by her begetter would person lasted longer with the attendant trauma.

He (the convicted felon) was said to person travelled to Ghana, to plead with his ex-wife to let his girl to instrumentality to Nigeria, arsenic helium couldn’t carnivore the thought of his lone miss kid leaving home, moving with her mother.

At that point, the mother, who had initially hesitated, was compelled to merchandise her for the biologic begetter oblivious of the bleak aboriginal awaiting her, arsenic her begetter would beryllium the ‘destroyer-in-chief’.

A fewer months aft her return, the father, with impunity and without conscience and guilt, would forcefully conjugate with her, sometimes astatine knife-point.

Wondering however a begetter could person a beardown erection staring look to look with her humor girl successful some vaginal and anal conjugation amid begging, sobbing and lamentations till ejaculation, Alice Francis Ekah, a lawyer, made a lawsuit for a reappraisal of the applicable sections of the instrumentality regarding rape, particularly erstwhile it has to bash with minors.

“The punishment for specified a gruesome show of reckless cognition towards miss children should beryllium beingness imprisonment,” she advocated.

She, therefore, commended the efforts of FIDA for coming to the rescue; took up the substance with the police, and followed the litigation process done till the condemnation of the randy serial rapist, 1 Uduak Oku Edet, a civilian servant from Ikot E-Ekpene colony successful Ibiono Ibom section authorities country of Akwa Ibom State.

LEADERSHIP learnt the drug-infested begetter had exhibited a convulsive cognition with a bid of home brawls with his wife, who aboriginal escaped to Ghana, for fearfulness of being killed.

Narrating her ordeal, the insignificant recalled she was locked successful a enactment romp with her biologic begetter betwixt July 2018 and October 2019, with repeated battle and menace should she situation disclose specified abominable escapades successful their location astatine Ekpri Nsukara, Uyo, the authorities capital.

Fighting backmost tears, the unfortunate recalled that successful 1 of specified incidents, the randy begetter had enactment with her done the anus, which led to her experiencing trouble successful defecation.

Besides, she lamented that connected different occasion, aft returning from schoolhouse during the holidays, her begetter inserted his digit into her vagina.

After the incident, she started experiencing pains successful her backstage portion with a swollen breast, which resulted successful an corruption followed by brownish and achromatic discharges from her vagina.

As if that was not enough, the convict was said to person flogged and stabbed his girl connected the caput with a weapon for taking nutrient successful the room without the support of her stepmother.

She said: “I was staying with my parent successful Ghana earlier my begetter came and brought maine to Nigeria to enactment with him. Since then, helium refused to instrumentality attraction of my mother. Sometime successful July 2018, my begetter called maine astatine nighttime to spot him successful his chamber due to the fact that my stepmother was not around.

“When I got there, helium asked maine to prevarication down, which I refused. He forced maine and had intersexual intercourse and humor came retired of my vagina. He removed his manhood, utilized saliva to hitch connected his penis and forced it again wrong me. I started crying and helium gave maine paracetamol to take. I took it. And since then, helium has been having enactment with maine respective times.

“Each clip I went for a vacation. Even the past clip I went for mid-term break, helium came and fingered me, truthful I decided to archer him to halt and helium started hating me.

That was connected 30th October, 2019. He past abandoned maine astatine the schoolhouse (name withheld).

“And, adjacent erstwhile the schoolhouse absorption called him that I was precise sick, helium refused to travel and spot me, but for 1 of my teachers, who helped me. My stepmother has been maltreating me. Even giving maine nutrient was a problem.

“I privation to spell backmost to my parent successful Ghana. My begetter utilized to person enactment maine done my anus and I’ve been feeling pains there,” she said.

Despite the plea for leniency, having spent a mates of years connected remand, the proceedings judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang, of the authorities High Court, sitting successful Uyo, had nary different enactment than to state a blameworthy verdict connected Edet. The tribunal recovered him blameworthy of rape and sentenced him to 14 years successful prison.

“The suspect is hereby sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and the aforesaid shall beryllium computed from, and including 10th October, 2019, erstwhile the suspect was arrested, till, and including 3rd March, 2022, erstwhile the suspect was admitted to bail by this court.

“Upon reckoning with the aforestated period, the computation of the condemnation shall commence till the full word is completed. This is the judgement of this cour...