Sights & Sounds:Togolese Herbalist Docked for Impregnating 13 year Daughter

This is a story that is heart wrenching ,who would you believe. How can a father impregnate his daughter ,If  mothers can not trust their husband with their daughters then who can they trust their daughters with ...an Uncle or total stranger?

Here is the story of a man who took advantage of his daughter who is a minor.

Here is the story as written below in one of the national daily newspaper.

The police in Lagos ,yesterday ,arraigned a Togolese herbalist,Friday Samuel 37,before an Apapa Chief Magistrates's court for allegedly impregnating his 13 year old daughter.

The Prosecutor,ASP Soji Ojaokomo,told the court that Samuel,who married a woman from Abia State (now deceased) ,resides at Igbede New Site ,Ajangbadi,Ojo a Lagos suburb.

Ojaokomo said, the accused faced a three-count charge of indecent assault,unlawful defilement and impregnating his daughter 

He said Samuel committed the offences at his residence on January 16,2014,at 8: 30 pm. The prosecutor said the accused,who is the biological father of the 13 year old ,had been constantly having unlawful sexual intercourse with her before he eventually impregnated her.

The accused was fond of fondling with his daughter and constantly having sexual  intercourse with her without the victim's consent"he said..

Ojaokomo said the daughter reported the matter to her sister when she could no longer bear the sexual assault.

The accused however ,pleaded not guilty to the charge.The Prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 116(d),135 and 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State,2011

Counsel to the accused,Mrs Okafor Ijeoma pleaded with the court to grant her client bail on liberal terms. 

" According to my client,his late wife's family wants to use this allegation against him,so as to take away their late daughter's cum sister's children from him since an Ikeja High Court denied them custody of the children some time ago.

"In fact,that is the true position because it is only through the girl,that the family can be getting information concerning her father since  her younger siblings are too immature to know what is happening to their father.