How 52 Year Old School Teacher, Segun Durojaiye Serially Rapes Daughter For Four Years
The 52-year-old father was held along with his brother,
Emmanuel Durojaiye, for the offence.
The victim lived with her father on Baba-Benja Street,
Oreyo, Igbogbo Ikorodu.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Segun took the victim into custody
after her mother died when she was an infant.
He and his second wife were said to be taking care of the
girl until sometime in 2014 when the stepmother died and the victim relocated
to Abuja to live with a relative.
Segun reportedly asked the victim to return home after a few
months and started having sex with her, with a threat that she must not reveal
the act to anyone.
It was gathered that the victim had visited her uncle,
42-year-old Emmanuel, in his apartment on Durojaiye Street in Oreyo one day
when he also allegedly raped her.
Emmanuel was said to have subsequently subjected her to
sexual harassment alongside her father.
Our correspondent learnt that sometime in December 2017, the
girl defied the threats and confided the incestuous relationships in her
stepsister, who informed their grandmother.
“The grandmother tried to manage the matter, but some
residents got wind of it and involved a lawyer. The lawyer petitioned the Lagos
State Police Command on behalf of the girl. The girl’s father and her uncle
were arrested and the case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
“The suspects confessed to have had canal knowledge of her
on three occasions respectively. In the course of investigation, one Adenike,
the second child of Segun, corroborated the victim’s claims. She said her
sister complained to her about how their father was sexually molesting her.
Adenike said she cautioned her father, but he continued. The father teaches at
Ijagba Community High School,” a police source said.
The source explained that the victim told the police that
her father impregnated her twice, while the uncle did once, adding that they
took her to places where the pregnancies were aborted.
He said, “She said the father started having sex with her
when she was 13. She was impregnated by the suspects, but the pregnancies were
aborted on three occasions. Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the nurses who
carried out the abortions. The father and the uncle took advantage of her
through constant threats.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike
Oti, confirmed the incident, adding that the command had zero tolerance for
sexual abuse.
He said, “The case was brought to the attention of the
police through a petition and the Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi,
directed that the case be referred to the SCIID for discreet investigations.
‘The CP and the command have zero tolerance for all manner
of sexual molestation. The command will continue to work with relevant agencies
of the state government in ensuring that the rights of people, especially the
girl child, are protected. Anybody caught violating, abusing or exploiting
minors will be brought to justice.”
The suspects were
arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court on Monday on eight counts
bordering on assault, rape and abortion.
The charges read in part, “That you, Segun Durojaiye of
Baba-Benja Street, Oreyo, Ikorodu, Lagos, and Emmanuel Durojaiye of 10
Durojaiye Street, Oreyo, Ikorodu, did conspire among yourselves to commit
felony,- to wit: having unlawful intercourse with a 16-year-old girl.
“That you, Segun Durojaiye, sometime between 2014 and 2017
did have unlawful sexual intercourse with one 16-year-old, your daughter,
impregnated, and procured abortion on her, thereby committing an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 145(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State of Nigeria 2015.
“That you, Emmanuel Durojaiye, sometime between 2014 and
2017 did have unlawful sexual intercourse with one 16-year-old, your niece,
impregnated her, and procured abortion on her, thereby committing an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 145(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State of Nigeria 2015.”
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The presiding magistrate, Oluwatoyin Oghre, granted the
accused bail in the sum of N1m each with two sureties each in like sum.
She said one of the sureties should be a Level 15 civil
servant who had a titled document or a traditional ruler, adding that the
sureties must show evidence of three years’ tax payments to the state government.
She ordered that the duplicate case file be sent to the
Directorate of Public Prosecutions and adjourned the case till March 12, 2018.
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