A 14-year-old secondary schoolgirl has narrated how his blind father, simply identified as Vitalis, has allegedly repeatedly sexually abused her.
The case was reported to Makinde Police Station on May 25, 2026 after an investigation by a Lagos-based child protection group.
The Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN) confirmed it received a report from a mandated reporter on May 25, 2026 regarding the alleged defilement.
ACVPN officers immediately moved to meet with the survivor, a Senior Secondary School SSS1 student, who recounted her ordeal.
According to the survivor, the abuse began in March 2025 when her father began touching her inappropriately.
“It all started when my father told me to help him home from the shop,” she reportedly told ACVPN officers, adding: “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.”
The teenager said she repeatedly resisted her father’s advances: “I told him I don’t like the way he touches me, but he kept doing it and would beat me whenever I refused.”
The ACVPN’s report stated that on April 27, 2026, the abuse escalated significantly.
According to the survivor, her father called her into his room, instructed her to remove her clothes, and raped her.
When she noticed bleeding, she said her father told her it “meant a covenant with God”.
ACVPN stated in its report that following that assault, the accused allegedly had sexual intercourse with the survivor daily.
The survivor told officers that the situation came to a head on May 17, 2026 when her father again demanded she removed her clothes, and she refused.
“He started shouting at me, calling me a harlot and a prostitute,” she recounted.
The survivor told investigators that she chose to speak up after overhearing a conversation that alarmed her.
With her parents’ marriage reportedly on the verge of collapse, she said she heard her father tell her mother: “There is nothing you have been doing for me that she cannot do.”
She subsequently informed her mother, who has been the family’s sole provider and is currently recovering from a serious illness.
The mother advised her daughter to stay calm and promised to confront the father if the abuse continued.
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 subsequently directed to the Lagos State Police Command Gender Unit, and from there to the police station nearest to her residence.
An ACVPN officer accompanied the survivor to Makinde Police Station, where the case was formally lodged the same day.
