My dad impregnated me, aborted it twice

My dad impregnated me,
aborted it twice
Crime Alert
I did it to appease the gods -
Father

The Human Right department of
Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in
Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a
49- year-old man who allegedly
had been having carnal knowledge
of his teenaged daughter for five
years.
It was discovered during
investigation that his daughter
Janet(not real name)got pregnant
in the  process twice, only for her
father to allegedly abort the
pregnancy with the aid of a
herbalist.
Sitting at a corner in the Human
Rights Office, 17-year-old Janet
could not raise her head to face
her father, Wale Akinusi, who was
also there. When approached, she
simply stated that at last, she had
been freed from the psychological
trauma associated with her
father’s sacrilegious act.
Crime Alert gathered that Janet’s
tale of woe started after her
mother abandoned her barely
when she was two-year-old for
her  paternal grandmother.
*Wale Akinusi – The suspect.
It was gathered that her mother
who was then a Junior Secondary
3 student, was impregnated by
Wale who was 32 years old.
Initially, he reportedly denied
paternity of the pregnancy but
later opted for an abortion on the
ground that he could not afford to
father a child then because he was
only an apprentice.
But his mother came to the
rescue as she offered to take care
of  the baby who turned out to be
Janet.
But when she was 12, her father,
reportedly took her from her
grandmother, with a promise to
give her a better education.
Rather than live up to his promise,
her father,  allegedly use her to
satisfy his sexual urge, a practice
that went on until he was
arrested.
Narrating how it all started, Janet
in her sitting position with her
head bowed all through, said:
“When I was leaving my
grandmother’s house, I was happy
because my father said  I would be
attending a better school. But I
waited for months without being
enrolled in any school.
“One night, then, I was 12,my dad
called me into his room and told
me he took an oat with my
mother to be the first man to
have sex with me. He said it had a
spiritual connotation and that it
was to enable him assume his
proper financial state.
“Then, I was too young to
understand what he meant. He
had carnal knowledge of me that
night. At a point, he asked if it
was painful. All I did was to watch
him have his way, still unable to
understand what he was doing.”
First pregnancy aborted by a
herbalist
“It continued until I was 14 years.
Then, I started having a funny
feeling. I told him I was sick and
when we conducted a pregnancy
test, it was positive. Next day, he
told me we were going
somewhere and we ended up in
the home of a herbalist in
Ikorodu, who gave me some
concoction. I drank some in his
apartment and took the rest
home. After two days,  my
menstruation started and my
father assured me all was well.
He only gave me a week’s break
before he continued all over again.
Two years later, when I was 16
years, I got sick again. When I
informed daddy, we went for
another pregnancy test which
confirmed my fear; I was pregnant
again!
When he returned next day from
his shop, he told me there was no
need to go to the herbalist.
Rather he gave me two sachets of
Alabukun and squeezed some lime
juice into a cup, asking me to take
it in a gulp. It did the magic and
the menstrual flow started  few
days later.”
“After the second abortion, I
became tired of the whole thing.
I  started being afraid every night.
At times, I would put tissue paper
under my panties , pretending I
was witnessing my monthly flow.
After a while, he got the trick, for
he started  taking note of the
date.
Challenges father
“I summoned courage and
reported the sacrilegious act to
our neighbors. But none of them
could confront him. Rather they
told me they could not interfere
into our family affair” , she stated,
with her head still bent.
Apparently discouraged by the
cold reaction from the neighbors,
Janet decided to take the bull by
the horn. Looking straight into his
father’s eyes for the very first
time since the sacrilegious act
started, she told her father she
was tired of the whole thing. To
make do her threat, she
reportedly rushed to the kitchen,
grabbed a knife and  threatened to
stab him if he attempted to force
her.
“This happened on November 28,
2012. My father had come home
from his shop . And at about 6pm,
he called me inside to warm his
bed. But when he saw the knife,
he retraced his steps. I quickly ran
inside my room , with the knife in
my hand and packed my things out
of the house, to stay with a friend
whose family welcomed me after I
narrated all that has been going
on in the past five years.”
“After spending three weeks with
them, I received a text message
from my father, asking me to
come home, or I would die. When
I showed the text message to the
family I was putting up with, they
suggested I reported the case to
the police. I hesitated at first
because I was scared he would be
jailed.
“But I changed my mind when the
text message threat continued”,
she said.
I did that to appease the gods –
father
When approached, it was obvious
that  49-year-old Wale Akinusi, a
fashion designer who hails from
Ondo central in Ondo state was
oblivious of the legal implication of
the offense, as he showed no sign
of remorse.
He bluntly told this reporter that
what he did was not new under
the sun, adding that this would
not be the first time such story
would be published on the pages
of newspapers.
“It is not a new thing that a man
has sex with his daughter and
even if I am jailed at the end,  I
will surely come out after serving
my jail term. But I promise that
my daughter will join me” he
threatened, dismissing the issue
with a wave of the hand.
Continuing, he said: “I went back
to claim my child so as to fulfill
the  oat made between her
mother and I. That was why I
took her to the herbalist when
she was pregnant, so as to
appease the gods of her mother’s
land. You will not understand.
“You see, when her mother was
six months pregnant, we made
love. She later told me that it was
a taboo for a man to sleep with a
pregnant woman in her place. She
said the only  remedy was for the
man to be the first person to
sleep with the child.
“I initially did not want to do it.
But along the line, I discovered
that things were not going on well
with me financially. And when I
made inquiry, I was made to
understand that I had to appease
the god’s of her mother’s land, so
as to attain my rightful place in
destiny.”
Asked why he continued after the
first time, he kept mute. Also
asked why he did not satisfy his
sexual urge on his wife who has
had four children for him, he
explained that they were leaving
apart.
“My wife lives in Ketu with the
children while I live in Ojo. I had
to live apart because I do not
want my wife and children to
suffer the consequences of my
sin. Also I did not want my wife
to know I was sleeping with my
own daughter”, he said.
Meanwhile, effort according to
sources at the Human Rights
department, was on to arrest the
herbalist who allegedly gave Janet
the concoction that aborted her
first pregnancy,while her father
would be charged to court.