How I slept with my daughter thrice is mystery – Father

A 49-year-old man, Bola Amoda, who was arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for alleged rape has said it is mysterious how he slept with his 14-year-old daughter.

The dry cleaner who live in the Ishara, Remo-North area of the state, in an interview with The Punch, said he has five children.

“She is my fourth child; I divorced her mother after she gave birth to the girl (victim). She has been married to another man in Ilorin. I do not have a wife presently. But I used to have a girlfriend.

“The girl was kept in the custody of her maternal grandmother. I sponsored her education for a while before the grandmother stopped me from seeing my child at her school. She started staying with me three years ago.

“She decided to live with me when she came on a holiday visit to her mother’s sister’s residence. I told her not to return to her grandmother because she told me that her grandmother had not been paying her school fees. Thereafter, I enrolled her in a school and she stayed.

On the allegation that she raped her daughter and also invited some men to rape her, he said, “I didn’t invite men to have sexual intercourse with my child. I didn’t know those men before now. I only met them when everything was exposed. They never set foot in my house. They had intercourse with her in their various homes; not in my house.

“Yes, I had intercourse with her four times. Twice last year and twice this year. I still can’t believe I did such. It still looks like I’m seeing a movie. I have never done anything to her elder ones. I didn’t deflower her. She was not a virgin when it happened.

“It happened when I came back from work. She was alone at home with me. So, I told her to bring my food. I didn’t know when I grabbed her and had intercourse with her.

“She did not want to fight me. She cried afterwards and asked why I did that to her. Then I pleaded with her to forgive me. It saddens me that I committed such a great sin. A month after that, it happened the second time. I mean I had intercourse with her the second time, with no protest from her.

“The third occurrence happened in July this year (2022). I told her to wait for me in my room after she fetched water for me to shower. But I later changed my mind. I didn’t join her in the room. She came to ask why I was hesitating to come inside the house. Afterwards, something in me asked why I was wasting time, so I went in with her and it happened again.”

“The whole thing is a mystery to me. I did seek help from a herbalist and he told me it was a spiritual issue. He told me to make a sacrifice which I did. I made the sacrifice just the Sunday before my arrest.”