A 15-year-old girl identified as Blessing,
is currently nursing a baby which came from the incestous relationship her
35-year-old brother Frederick initiated when she was 13.
The repeated sexual abuse by her brother came to
light, after she delivered a baby girl at Stella Obasanjo Hospital, in Edo
State. Her brother reportedly took the baby away from her and abandoned her at
a refuse dump, claiming afterwards that she was dead.
Frederick now in custody of commissioner for Women
Affairs was almost lynched by a mob, after the baby was found. Narrating her
ordeal, Blessing said;
“My brother has been sleeping with me since I was
13 years old. Sometimes last year, he sent his wife out of their matrimonial
home for about eight months. .
He sent her out, so that he could have his way with
me on a daily basis. I had no one to cry to because he is my eldest brother. We
lost our mum when I was 10 years old; this made me to stay with him. .
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He promised to marry me despite all odds. He told me that I should not terminate the pregnancy. He said that once I was delivered of the baby, he would get someone to take the baby and we would become rich.”
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He promised to marry me despite all odds. He told me that I should not terminate the pregnancy. He said that once I was delivered of the baby, he would get someone to take the baby and we would become rich.”
Frederick on his own part said he started sleeping
with his sister, after he returned home and saw her looking like his wife. News
Telegraph reported that the rape suspect however insisted that Blessing was
17-years-old when he defiled her, and recently clocked 18 in January.
The baby and her mother were reportedly released to
the officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs, after some documents were
signed by both parties.