A 29-year-old man, Adekunle Adebiyi, is currently cooling his heels in police custody in Lagos for defiling his five-year-old daughter, Bola (
A 29-year-old man, Adekunle Adebiyi, is currently cooling his heels in police custody in Lagos for defiling his five-year-old daughter, Bola (pseudonym). Adebiyi reportedly committed the crime following a stormy relationship between him and his estranged lover, Anu, who is the mother of the victim.
The lovers had kept each other at arm’s length but reconciled again in May 2020 on Adebiyi’s request. On returning from a shopping trip on May 26, the girl reportedly took ill and Adebiyi gave Anu his Automated Teller Machine card to withdraw N5,000 at a nearby bank for her treatment.
It was gathered that Bola was with her father at a barber’s around Abule Egba, while the mother rushed to the bank. By the time she came back, Adebiyi was said to have run away with the girl. The incident was reported to the police and Bola was reunited with her mother one week later.
Anu said she began to notice some strange changes in her child’s behaviour as she always complained whenever she wanted to wash her private parts.
“She would be holding her chest and wouldn’t allow me to wash her private parts. I asked her what happened but she didn’t say anything.
A medical test carried out on Bola at the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, reportedly confirmed that her private parts had been tampered with. Adebiyi was arrested and consequently arraigned in an Ogba magistrates’ court on one count of defilement.
The charge read in part, “That you, Adekunle Adebiyi, did unlawfully defile one girl (name withheld) by inserting your penis into her vagina, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
Adebiyi was remanded in police custody while the case was adjourned till October 6, 2020.
