A 14-year-old secondary school student has alleged that her blind father repeatedly sexually abused her over more than a year, in a case now before the Lagos State Police Command following intervention by a child protection organisation.
The Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN) confirmed it received a report on May 25, 2026, from a mandated reporter regarding the alleged defilement of the SSS1 student by her father, identified only as Vitalis. ACVPN officers subsequently met with the survivor, who gave a detailed account of her ordeal.
According to the survivor, the abuse began in March 2025 when her father began touching her inappropriately after she helped him home from his shop.
“When we arrived home, he told me to sit beside him and started touching me from my hands to my breasts, and then down between my legs,” she reportedly told ACVPN officers.
She said she repeatedly resisted but her father persisted, beating her whenever she refused.
The ACVPN report states that on April 27, 2026, the abuse escalated into rape. The survivor recounted that her father called her into his room, instructed her to undress, and sexually assaulted her. When she noticed she was bleeding, he allegedly told her it “meant a covenant with God.” She told investigators that following that assault, the abuse occurred daily.
The situation came to a head on May 17, 2026, when the survivor again refused her father’s demands. She said he verbally abused her in response. Her decision to speak out was further prompted after she overheard her father tell her mother — the family’s sole breadwinner, currently recovering from illness — “There is nothing you have been doing for me that she cannot do.” She subsequently disclosed the abuse to her mother, who urged her to remain calm.
On the morning of May 25, 2026, the survivor independently visited a Lagos State-approved Sexual Assault Referral Centre, where medical tests confirmed she had been sexually abused. She was then referred to the Lagos State Police Command Gender Unit and subsequently to Makinde Police Station, where the case was formally lodged the same day, with an ACVPN officer in attendance.
Medical documentation from the referral centre has been issued to the survivor. ACVPN confirmed that the suspect is expected to be arrested following the public holiday period.
