Why I started sleeping with my 17-year-old daughter, got her pregnant – Father confesses

Samuel Uba, 65, from Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State, has reportedly committed an abominable act by repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter, Hannah Uba and impregnating her in the process.

When the Oguta community got wind of the abominable act after the violated and traumatized teenager reported the matter to a neighbour, some youths gathered to lynch the old man but he was rescued by police officers.

Sun news reports that Hannah’s trouble started in 2012 after her father’s second wife died.

According to Uba: “I had two wives. My first wife died in 2011 while the second died in 2012. I have nine children, two girls and seven boys. When my second wife was on admission in the hospital, I used to have sex with her right in the hospital. But when she died I started sleeping with my daughter when the other children were asleep. I began having sex with my daughter because I didn’t want to be sleeping around with other women.”

Recounting the horrific experience she passed through, Hannah, a JSS 3 student, said “I have been living in bondage. My father started having sex with me after his two wives died. He would always beat me before having sex with me. I told him to remarry but he refused. Every night he would come and rape me. Any day I refused to have sex with my father, he would beat me and then rape me. He always came when the other children were asleep. It was the fear of my father’s beating that made me not to tell anybody. But one day, I decided to confess to my neighbour. It was the neighbour who discovered that I was five months pregnant. Immediately the news spread, youths in the community gathered to kill my father, but policemen rescued him.”

Pastor Donatus Olisa, General Overseer of Christian Pentecostal Church, where the suspect and his daughter worship said he learnt about Hannah’s predicament from other members of the church.

Shocked to the marrow, Pastor Olisa told Sunday Sun: “The father of the girl, Samuel and his daughter attend my church every Sunday. Some people told me that Papa Samuel was sleeping with his daughter; they said the pregnancy that resulted from it had reached five months. I was deeply shocked. The following morning I went to the house of Papa Samuel and he confessed that he impregnated the daughter. He acknowledged raping her often.”

Confirming the incident, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abdulmajid Ali disclosed that the Command has made tireless efforts to conduct proper investigation into the case, which he described as an abomination.