The 12-year-old girl, identified simply as Queen, who was allegedly raped serially by her father, Bamekpa, with her four-month-old pregnancy crudely aborted, has said she could not count the number of times Bamekpa allegedly forcibly had canal knowledge of her.
The Nations reports that there has been public outrage against the incident, which occurred at Imiringi, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, with many people calling for Bamekpa’s arrest and prosecution.
Although the suspect was said to have been arrested and detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police command, there were indications that the police had not taken the matter further.
The statement of the abused girl was yet to be taken at press time, while the police was yet to meet officially with Operation Rescue (OR), the non-governmental organisation (NGO) handling the matter. Other persons indicted in the crime had also not been arrested.
But Queen relived her ordeal in the hands of her father and called on the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to step in and facilitate the process of bringing the man to justice.
“I want my father to be thrown into prison”, the traumatised SS1 student said. “I feel pained that a man I called my father used me many times to satisfy his sexual urge.”
She said each time her father came, she would cry and beg him to stop but he would not listen to her. She said on one occasion, her father beat her to submission before forcing himself into her.
She said: “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.”
The teenager said her life became more traumatic when her father allegedly commenced the process of aborting the pregnancy. She said the method was crude and opened a chapter of health problems in her life.
