Father Confesses to Raping Daughter in Ondo, gives Reason

The man whose daughter accused of Rape in Owo local government area of Ondo state, Mr. Usman Momoh has confessed to the crime.

Momoh, who spoke on Friday while being transferred to the State Police Command headquarters, said he had sex with his daughter only once.

He asked the society to forgive him as he has realised his mistake, blaming devil as reason for his action.

Momoh said he didn’t know what came over him when he committed the act.

Nigeriancablenewsonline.com Reported how Miss Fatima had raised alarm over the alleged continued violation of her body by her father in a viral video.

The Chairperson of Ondo Women Lawyers (FIDA), Barr. Bola Ogundadegbe, told journalists that the prosecution of Momoh rests with the police after conducting investigation,

She said the victim would be counselled psychologically to enable her come out of her current state of depression.

“We are going to give her psychological support. She needs our support morally because she is not stable,” she stated.

Fatima had in a viral video accused her biological father of having sexual intercourse with her since she was 13 years old.

She said her mother was not aware of the incident.

Recounting her ordeal, Fatima said her father has sexually been abusing her since she was an underage. She explained how he took her virginity on the kitchen floor at the dead of the night.

“I remember my father coming to wake me up in the dead of the night and led me to the kitchen which was downstairs.

“He threatened me with a cutlass and kept slapping me and said if I do not cooperate, he was going to kill me. He had a knife also in his hands. He finally deflowered me at 13.”

Fatima, who said she was never pregnant for her father because he monitored her menstrual cycle, further observed that whenever she tries to bring up the topic, her mother will shut her up.

“She said her sister also reported a similar incidence to their mother lately, and her elder sister had long left home and would never visit whenever she is in Owo.

“My mother never gave me the chance to speak to her. Once I tried to express it, she would shut me up. But I have asked her a number of times if truly the man I call my father is indeed my biological father.

“My younger sister even told my mother recently that daddy was touching her breast, but mother simply shunned us and asked us to leave.”

On why she finally spoke up after a long ordeal, Fatima said it was God, as she never had any intention to speak up even though she had threatened her father several times to so do.

“He initially told me I would be free in 2018, then again in 2019 but when he came again in 2020; I told him if he doesn’t free me, I would free myself”, She said.

Fatima’s aunt, Mrs. Diamond Mary, while reacting to the incident, said Fatima who was missing for some days suddenly showed up at her house and that it was in the course of interrogation that she confessed that she left home because her father was repeatedly raping her.

According to the Aunt, when Fatima’s father was confronted with the allegation, he confessed to the crime. He was arrested and taken to the Police Station at Otapete Division, Owo.