7-Year Old Narrates How Her Father Fingers Her, Makes Her Suck His Joystick & Introduced Her To Masturbation

                                                          The alleged culprit, her father

Seven-year-old Ngozi (pseudonym) is no longer a child. Her
innocence has been stolen by her 41-year-old father, Emeka Igwe, who not only
raped her, but got her addicted to masturbation.

It was gathered that anytime Ngozi felt sexual urge and her
father was not around to stimulate her, she would invite boys into her parents’
apartment in the Federal Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos State, to “play
with her private parts”.

Punch Metro learnt that the victim’s mother first detected
the act in January, 2015, and after reporting to policemen at the Ojokoro
Police Division, the case was dismissed as a family matter.

The police reportedly threatened to detain her, while her
husband’s family accused her of inciting her four children against their
family.

Emeka, a trader, allegedly continued to defile his daughter
in their apartment until August, when the matter got to the attention of the
estate executive.

The Orlu, Imo State indigene, was apprehended and reported
to the Project Alert on Violence against Women, a non-governmental
organisation, from where the case got to the Area F Police Command.

Ngozi, who is in primary 3, told Punch Metro that her father
had been assaulting her since 2014.

She explained that after inserting his fingers into her
private parts, he would press her head down and force his manhood into her
mouth, adding that he always gave her N10 after the act.

She said her nine-year-old brother, Emeka, sometimes watched
from a window.

She said, “My dad does it anytime; in the morning and in the
afternoon. My mum always goes to the market. He will then give me N10 to buy
something.

“He will open his leg and press my head down and put his private
parts into my mouth. After that, he will say I should scratch his body. He will
now carry me down and put his fingers in my private parts again.

“He started it last year when my mother was washing clothes
and I went to buy something. He asked me to come into the parlour and told
Ebuka, Chioma and Chibuike (her siblings) to go into the bedroom. I did not
know that Ebuka was watching from the window.”

Her mother, Endurance, told Punch Metro she had been married
to the suspect for more than 10 years, without knowing he was capable of such
act.

The 40-year-old said her first child, Ebuka, had been
telling her that Ngozi masturbated, but she never believed it.

“The first time she did it in my presence was sometime in
January, while I was preparing a meal and I saw her. I beat her up and asked
her to stop it because it was bad.

“I later told my husband my observation and he said nothing
was wrong with her.

“My four-year-old neighbour’s son came to our apartment and
Ngozi took her to our bedroom and asked the boy to put his fingers in her
private parts. It was the boy’s mother that saw them.

“I called her and asked if anybody had been playing with her
private parts and she said no.”

Endurance said Ebuka later told her what had been happening
between father and daughter.

The other children were said to have corroborated Ebuka’s
account, before Ngozi also confessed to her mother.

She said she confronted her husband with the allegation,
adding that he got angry and started beating the children for every slight
offence.

She said when she could no longer bear it, she reported at
the Alakuko Police Station, from where she was referred to the Ojokoro Police
Division.

PUNCH Metro learnt that a test was conducted on the victim
at the General Hosptal, Ile Epo, which showed there was an opening in Ngozi’s
private parts.

Endurance said she was advised to run an infection test on
her daughter, before her in-laws asked her to withdraw the case.

She said the Divisional Police Officer at Ojokoro threatened
to lock her up.

“The DPO said I deliberately set up my husband because he
had not been treating me well. I was in tears,” she added.

She said they all returned home and things went back to
normal until in August when her first child reported to her that their father
had started “playing with Ngozi’s private parts” again.

“I called Ngozi and she told me that her father had started
playing with her private parts. She said he asked her to kneel down and forced
her to suck his private parts.

“Then, two weeks ago while I was washing clothes, Ebuka came
and said their father gave Ngozi N20 and did not give him anything. After he
left, Chioma also came and said the same thing.

“Later, I called Ngozi to know what made her father gave her
the money. She told me it was N10, adding that he played with her private
parts.”

The neighbours were said to have challenged the suspect, but
he denied doing anything to the child.

The community youth leader, Olaitan Adebiyi, told Punch Metro that he got to know about the case after eavesdropping on a conversation
in the street.

He added that he later met the victim’s mother, who narrated
her ordeal to him.

He said, “The estate executive met and we decided to go to
his house to investigate. His co-tenants confirmed that he had been doing it
for a long time. We decided to get him arrested.

“He came into his apartment around 12.30 on Thursday night,
and we decided to keep vigil at his door step till day break. He was about
leaving the house on Friday when we apprehended him and told him he had a case
to answer.”

The suspect, however, denied assaulting his daughter.

He said, “I did not do anything to Ngozi. The day I called
her and gave her N10 to buy biscuit, her siblings asked me for their own, but I
said I was not the one that gave her the money.

“I have touched her private parts only once. I did not know
the time it happened. I touched her last year. I said, ‘Ngozi, remove your
pants. Why did you soil your pants?’ I then took water and washed her. That was
all.”

The Director of Project Alert, Mrs. Josephine
Effah-Chukwuma, said the group was ready to take up the case.

“This is a clear case of sexual abuse, and we are having an
epidemic in our hand. Hardly a week goes by without us having cases of children
between the ages of three to seven being defiled.

“It is clear that this woman and her children can no longer
live with him. The victim is seven and she has a five-year-old younger sister,
and if this is not well handled, this man will move on to the little girl as
well.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command,
Patricia Amadin, confirmed the incident.

She said, “The case is confirmed. The suspect has also
confessed to the crime, especially after his first son said he saw him.

“We will be transferring the case to the Area G Command,
Ogba. Investigation is ongoing, and justice will be done.”