Young girl impregnated by father wants him jailed

The young girl who was impregnated by her father, has asked the Nigeria police to jail her father for repeatedly molesting her. The 12-year-old identified as Queen, was carrying a four-month-old pregnancy for her father, Bamekpa, before he took her to a place where an abortion was carried out to forcefully eject the growing foetus. 

The incident which was reported at the police station, was said to have happened at Imiringi, Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa state. The alleged father has since been arrested and detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police command, the police are said not to be taking any positive step on the matter which the youngster is quite irrational. 

The abused girl had yet to make a statement as at press time and th police was yet to meet officially with Operation Rescue (OR), the non-governmental organisation (NGO) handling the matte, but she relived her ordeal in the hands of her father and called on the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to step in to ensure justice. 

The SS1 student said: “I want my father to be thrown into prison. I feel pained that a man I called my father used me many times to satisfy his sexual urge.” The 12-year-old continued: “He started sleeping with me in 2015. The first time he did it, I was in my room reading when he came in. He asked me the kind of school I would like to go. 

Then he came close to me. “When I stood up to go, he asked me to wait and started touching me all over my body. I asked him what he was doing but he told me to keep quiet and immediately pushed me into the bed. “He tied my hands backwards. When he saw that I was shouting, he covered my mouth with his hand, He started doing it increasingly from that time. 

I always cried and begged him to leave me but he would not listen.” Although she was too scared to tell anybody what transpired between her and the father, Queen said her father threatened to kill her if she did. However, the signs of pregnancy as shown by the young girl raised suspicions by her stepmother. 

“When I became pregnant, I didn’t know. My stepmother saw the signs and suspected that I was pregnant. It was when she began to ask me who impregnated me that I told her. I learnt she has moved out of the house. “My father, seeing that I was pregnant, took me to do an abortion. He took me to Elebele and handed me over to his female friend named Peace, who took me to a house in Otu-Aba. 

“They did not allow me to see the process, but I saw the instruments. It was very painful. After that day, I started bleeding because he didn’t abort the pregnancy completely. I was taken back to Otu-Aba on December 5 and from there, we went to Otu-Asiga to flush the remaining one. “I discovered later that my body system had been messed up. 

I noticed I was no longer menstruating. It was just recently that I was taken to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) where an operation was done on me with something like a container inserted into me. They called it a minor operation. I went back to FMC on Thursday to remove the container. “I feel very bad. I want the police oga (police boss) to put him in prison. He has been doing similar things to many people,” Queen narrated.