Man, 47, Arrested Over Sex With Two Daughters

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Police operatives from the Gender Section of the Lagos State Command have arrested a 47-year old man, Godswill Alfred Tom, for allegedly sleeping with his two biological daughters aged 16 and 11, for the past two years.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Juliana Lawson Street, Alagbado area of Lagos, where they reside.

According to the Police, the  suspect, Godswill Tom, who hails from Akwa Ibom State, started molesting the victims since 2019 when they were 14 and 9 respectively and continued till this year when the victims summoned courage and told their neighbours what they were going through for those years.

According to the victims, they kept the whole thing away from their mother, who usually goes out early in the morning for her business and comes back late in the evening after their father had seriously warned them not to tell anyone what he was doing to them.

The victims, who were traumatized by constant molestation by their father, lost confidence and could not tell anyone because of the threat by their father.

However, when the pressure of continuous demand for sex became unbearable for the elder daughter, she opened up to their neighbours and the younger daughter also revealed that she was defiled too by her father.

Thus, their neighbours contacted a human rights group, which reported to the Police and Godswill was arrested and transferred to the Gender Section of the Command for further investigation.

The victims were rescued and taken to protective custody while their father was brought to the Ogba Magistrates Court to be arraigned for defilement, which attracts life imprisonment if he is tried and found guilty before the Court.

However, the arraignment was stalled on Friday when he was brought to the Court as the Court did not sit before our correspondent left the premises.