His reason for
sleeping with his daughter was simple: She resembles her mother, his late
wife.This was the reason a 42-year-old petty trader, Emmanuel Ubom gave for
committing incest by repeatedly, raping his 15-year-old daughter.
It was also alleged that he got her impregnated and got them terminated.
This abominable act
between father and daughter came to public notice when the father-of-two was
caught red-handed by his co-tenant at their one-room apartment in their
face-me-I-face-you tenement located at Etegbin Area, Ojo, Lagos.
Trouble started for
Ubom, an Akwa-Ibom State indigene, when his daughter, Uduaka Emmanuel, who
couldn’t condone his incessant sexual demands anymore confided in one of their
neighbours who often play a motherly role to her and her younger sister since
the demise of their mother.
Acting on the tip,
the middle-aged woman (who begged to be anonymous) monitored the widower’s
movement one sunny afternoon, and consequently caught him on the verge of
having another sexual romp with his daughter. The woman raised an alarm which
attracted other neighbours and the sex-crazed father was disgraced and dragged
to Ojo Police Station by his angry neighbours.
Subsequently, Ubom
was immediately charged to court on a one-count charge of unlawful defilement
of his daughter, a crime punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of
Lagos State of Nigeria, 2001. In the course of his trial, the visibly
remorseful man who pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him, begged
the court to tamper justice with mercy for the sake of his daughters.“I can’t
deny the fact that I used to sleep with my daughter. I don’t know what came
over me; it is the devil’s work. Since I lost my wife five years ago, I have
been so lonely and sexually starved, I don’t know how it all started, but my
first daughter looks more like her mother; she possesses the physique and
charming looks of her mother. I am so ashamed of myself; I just pray my
daughters would forgive me, likewise the spirit of their dead mother,” Ubom
pleaded before the court.
The police
prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent Friday Ezeh, condemned the heinous act of
the accused and urged the court to award the accused the appropriate punishment
so as to serve as deterrent to other wayward fathers and guardians who are
sexually molesting their daughters and wards under their care.
“This act is
becoming more rampant in our present day society, and if severe punishment is
not handed to offenders to serve as scapegoat to others, the message wouldn’t
be driven home properly. Where I come from, this barbaric act of father
forcefully having carnal knowledge of the daughter could lead to
ex-communication or even ostracizing of the man if found guilty. Ubom shouldn’t
be pitied,” he argued
Source: Daily Post
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