Man arrested for deflowering daughter, grand-daughter in Lagos

IF found guilty by the court of law, Mr. Sylvester Ehijere may spend the rest of his life in prison for making his seven-year-old daughter and another 11-month-old grand-daughter lose their virginity.

The matter which sent rude shocks down the spines of detectives and newsmen was reported by his wife, Margaret, who told the police that she has been warning Sylvester to desist from the evil act after he deflowered their first daughter who grew up to become the mother of the 11-month-old baby also deflowered by her grandfather.

The Guardian gathered that the suspect, Ehijere, had continually had carnal knowledge of his two daughters; Favour, the grown-up child and seven-year old Chidimma, then recently his grand-daughter.

Ehijere’s daughter, Chidimma, told newsmen that his father usually targets whenever their mother was out of the house and lures them into the act. Beside, his wife Margaret had caught him in the act in the past. Sylvester pleaded to her pledging to desist from such act.

His unrepentant attitude prompted his wife to report the matter to the Lagos State Police command who then sponsored a medical test for the two kids where the doctor declared the duo “non-virgins” and advised that the children should be taken for HIV test.

“He always targets when my mother goes out and then he will first use his finger in my private part before he will use his penis. Even when my mother tried to defend me he beat her up.  When he finished, he told me that he would pluck out my eyes if I tell anyone. He also promised to buy me toy cars, biscuits, sweets, clothes and shoes if I kept quiet,” said little Chidinma.

“I am a professional caterer. In 2006, I went to Abuja for a catering job where I was booked to spend five days. But at about 1am that fateful day, my first daughter called me on the phone crying that her father raped her that night. When I confronted him, he beat me up and he continued to molest our daughter. Each time I confronted him earned me a beating. I had no choice but to leave him for three years when I got fed up of the whole matter,” his wife, Margaret said.

According to her: “ I moved out with my six children and started life afresh. However, in 2011, his family came to appeal to me to forgive him and take him back. Although I refused the plea initially, but I reconsidered going back to him when the apartment I was living was sold.”

“They sold the house I live in and I had no money to look for another accommodation because I had lost my job. I had no choice but to move back last year after he swore to keep-off my daughters. I really thought he had changed but in August last year, I caught him doing the same thing with our last daughter Chidimma. I called her out and she poured out   her heart and told me how her father had constantly been abusing her.”

“Again, I confronted him and he beat me up. I had to pick my daughter and run to his brother’s house, where I stayed for three days before I went back home.”

She also narrated how her husband raped her 1-year-old grand-daughter.

She said: “Because my daughter, Favour, works, we decided to enroll her daughter in a day care centre at Ejigbo area. I had always been the only one that brings her back at 6.00p.m. everyday from the Daycare Centre. But on that particular day, my husband went to the daycare, but the teacher refused to release the child. He harassed her till she released my grand daughter, Tega, and he took her home and raped her. I didn’t know what happened till I picked her up to bath her for the night. It was then I saw blood in the baby’s pampers. I called the police.”   Confirming the incident, the Lagos State police spokesman, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the man will soon be charged to court for  “defilement.”

Braide who displayed the medical report that indicted the suspect said.

“The suspect is in the habit of sleeping with his daughters and now his grand-daughter. We have the doctor’s report, which shows that the girls have been defiled. The doctor advised for them to be taken for HIV test. The wife who was fed up with his act reported the case to the Ejigbo Divisional Police Officer, Oliver Inoma-Abbey, a Chief Superintendent of Police.”