A 15-year-old girl (name withheld) has been reportedly sexually assaulted by her sixty-five-year-old step father and his sixty-year-old brother at Olude, Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
The incident reportedly took several days before the case was eventually reported to the police.
The victim, a JSS 1 student of a government-owned secondary school in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State was said to have earlier been severally abused by her biological father since when she was two years.
She explained that her ordeal started at the age of two when her biological father started having canal knowledge of her after her mother Abiodun kareem moved out of her matrimonial home leaving her with her father, saying the development continued till she was eight years old.
The victim said it was easy for her father to carry out the act because there was no one else living with the duo of daughter and father.
She alleged that the 65-year-old step-father, Mr Waheed Kareem continued from where her father stopped and always had sex with her weekly while his younger brother, Rasheed Kareem popularly called Onaala daily had sex with her.
She explained that her mother took her to a private hospital and it was diagnosed that her womb was infected.
The 35-year-old mother of the victim, Abiodun Kareem said she accosted her husband but had to keep mute as she had no financial means to take care of the three children age 6, 4 and 2 birthed for the man.
Reacting, the suspect, an indigene of Abeokuta, Waheed Kareem pleaded guilty but blamed the act on the devil as he did not know what came over him.
The case has been transferred to the state criminal and investigation department for further investigation ,the suspect detained while the step- father’s younger brother Rasheed Karim who was also involved in the allegation is now at large.
Meanwhile, the director child welfare, ministry of women affairs and social inclusion, Mr Oluwagbemileke Ojerinde said the victim would be rehabilitated while her mother would be supported in raising the other three children.
