Police arraign man for allegedly impregnating daughter

The police in Lagos have dragged a man, Akin Isaac, before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, for allegedly impregnating his 20-year-old biological daughter.

Aside impregnating his daughter, the accused also allegedly forced her to abort the pregnancy.

The police said the accused had carnal knowledge of his daughter during the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

The prosecutor told the presiding judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, that the incident occurred when the girl was 17 years old.

The prosecution witness, while being led in evidence by a state prosecutor, Y. A. Alebiosu, said the girl was living with her grandmother before her father demanded that she moved in to stay with him.

The girl told the court that as soon as she moved in, her father who had two wives started touching her body in a suggestive manner.