The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Idowu’s arrest. Whenever he did it, he would clean up the mess and warn me not to tell anybody.”Ī police source said the suspect also allegedly raped Victoria’s elder sister, who attended a college of education in Lagos State. My father deflowered me several months ago, and he had been raping me since then. Punch Metro learnt that Victoria told the police in her statement that her father deflowered her. The 60-year-old man, surnamed Oriedo who happens to be a widower, took advantage of his son’s ‘commuter marriage’, and had been spending a lot of time at the younger man’s house, eyeing. I thought she was mentally unstable, until the man was arrested some days ago.” She said, “The girl came to me on the day she was fleeing home and said her father had been raping her. Speaking with Punch Metro, a neighbour, who did not want his name in print, said the victim had also reported to her while fleeing the house. She claimed the father started from the beginning of the year.” He would thereafter warn her not to tell anyone. She said anytime the family slept at night, the father would sneak into her room and rape her. “The victim said she could not bear it anymore as her father had raped her several times in the year. I reported the case at the police station in Badagry immediately and the man was arrested. The aunt thereafter contacted our organisation. He said, “The victim fled to a relative, who is her aunt in the Ikotun area. It was learnt that Victoria, who had been kept in government’s custody, was r*ped while her mother was bedridden.Ī social worker, identified only as Ibrahim, who reported the matter to the police, said the victim fled to her aunt in the Ikotun area. Punch Metro reports that Idowu was arrested on Thursday, June 23, by the Badagry Police Division. The suspect was said to have travelled for a prayer meeting on the day his daughter fled home. It was learnt that the matter got to the attention of the police after the victim, Victoria (pseudonym), packed from her father’s apartment to put up with a family friend in the Ikotun area. He has however been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for commiting the act.Īccording to Punch Metro, the man committed the crime at the Aradagun, Badagry area of Lagos.
A man identified as one Timothy Idowu, has been found out to have r*ped his own 15-year-old daughter.