Heart-Touching Story: How My Father, Co-tenants, Friends Defiled Me – 14-Year-old Nursing Mother

By Oluniyi Akintunde, Akure

A 14-year-old girl (names withheld) who is nursing a baby in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has claimed that her biological father defiled her and that some other men sexually assaulted her.

She called on government, civil society organisations and humanitarians to help seek justice on her ordeal in the hands of his father and the other men who took advantage of her.

The teenager, who gave birth to a baby boy out of countless sexual intercourse with men on January 22, 2017, recounted her ordeals when speaking with CityMirrorNews in Akure, on Tuesday.

She lamented that the father of the baby, one Oluwadarasimi has rejected the child because he was not the only one that had sex with her.

The 14-year-old mother

According to her, the father of the three-month old baby is one Sikiru.

She stated that after having sex with her, Sikiru invited some of his friends to come have sleep with her too in her father’s house.

The mother of athree months old Oluwadarasimi is a dropped out of one of the Local Authority (LA) Primary sch#ool when she was in Primary IV.

She said: “Sikiru slept with me many times in my father’s house and he also invited his friends namely: Omo Ibo, Jibola, Akue and Dada to have sex with me. But he is the father of Oluwadarasimi.”

The minor stated that whenever she accosted Sikiru, who is married with two wives and two kids he would threaten to chop off her head if she ever told anyone that he is the father of her baby-boy despite the resemblance.

“Whenever I meet him to claim the paternity and responsibility of Oluwadarasimi, he will shout at me and threaten to cut off my head if I ever tell anybody that he is the father of the boy. This even caused a big fight between him and my daddy in the house; he beat hell out of my father when he challenged him.”

She, however, said that her father too had sexual intercourse with her but he was not responsible for the pregnancy.

She revealed that her father, who has divorced her mother when she was a baby, also had another sex with her after her childbirth.

The teenager, who claimed not to know her mother said she was rescued by her former teacher in LA School, simply identified as Mrs. Olatunji.

She urged government at all levels and all humanitarians to help her prosecute Sikiru and his friends for taking undue advantage of her innocence.

Mrs Olatunji, on a visit to her house, disclosed that the victim had been maltreated and uncared for since she was her student, saying “she would come to class in tattered uniform, no textbooks, no writing materials and often times would come to school without food.”

The teacher, who has been taking care of the 14 years old nursing mother and her baby, narrated that she just disappeared from school suddenly and ran into her recently in one of Akure streets; unkempt, pale, distraught and with her malnourished baby.

She confirmed that her father was having incest with her.

According to Olatunji, “I was sad when she told me that she left school because she was pregnant and had delivered a baby-boy.

“She said one Sikiru, a co-tenant in one of the single room apartment which she was staying with her father, step-mother and a sibling, who is now deceased, is the father of the baby but refuse to take responsibility.

“There was a day the step-mother stormed our school shouting that we should help her beg her step-daughter to leave her husband alone. The woman narrated how she woke up in the middle of the night and found her husband having sex with the victim. When we asked the father, he denied it.”

She added that immediately she saw the terrible condition of her former student and the baby, she had compassion and went to a nearby police station to report the case before taking her custody.

The teacher said she noticed Oluwadarasimi’s genital organ had been infected and that she gave her mum N2,000 to go for circumcision of the baby.

“But she came back to my house the following day to tell me that her father collected N1,500 out of the money, instructing her to give the baby local concoction to treat the diseased organ. Anytime she comes to play here with me and it is time to go back home to her father in the evening, she would be crying and begging me not to allow her to go.

“She lamented that her father would have sexual intercourse with her again, threatening her that he would cut off her head if she ever mention it to anybody”, the teacher said.

The teacher reiterated that the father of the teenage girl threatened her too, warning her to stay clear from his daughter and her baby.

She called on the civil society organizations, Ondo state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and other well-meaning Nigerians to intervene in the matter so that little Oluwadarasimi and her mother can be properly reformed.

All efforts to speak with Sikiru and the father of the teenage girl proved abortive as they eluded all available means to speak with journalists on the issues.

However, the State Coordinator of Child Protection Network (CPN), Mr. Emmanuel Adaramola, has taken up the case and pledged to mount pressure on the ministry and the police department saddled with the responsibility of settling children matters to take the matter up.

Adaramola said: “CPN will stop at nothing to ensure justice is done on this issue, we will investigate the matter and make sure the offenders are brought to book if found guilty.”