Man Rapes, Impregnates Underage Daughter of Lagos Lawyer

A 42-year old suspect, identified
as Rasak Ishola, has been arrested
by the police for allegedly raping
and impregnating a 16-year old
daughter of a legal practitioner in Lagos State.
The incident took place at their Igando residence,
where the victim, her family and the defendant
reside.
Rasak Ishola also allegedly aborted the
pregnancy without her parent's knowledge. The
complications arising from the abortion made the
girl fall sick.
When her parents became apprehensive about her
illness and asked her what happened and why her
condition had deteriorated over time, she then
opened up and confessed what happened to her.
The angry father went to the police and reported
the incident.
Ishola, who originates from Ogun state, was
arrested and detained at Igando Police Division
where he was charged to Ejigbo Magistrate's
court with the alleged offences under the Criminal
Code.
Ishola, who is married and has three children,
allegedly admitted that the teenage girl was his
girlfriend and that he had been sleeping with her
without his wife's knowledge.
"I knew her six months ago and since she was
living in the same area with me, we were meeting
secretly until she became pregnant," he narrated.
The suspect denied the rape charge against him
and claimed she is above 18 years old and had
just gained admission into Delta State University
as a first year student.
Ishola said when she became pregnant, her
father, who is a legal practioner, started making
trouble with him, and his efforts to settle the
matter with the lawyer failed because he said he
could not meet his conditions.
Asked what could have led him into all that, he
said it was temptation and not that he actually
raped her.
Ishola said he kept the affairs away from his wife
and because of the incident his wife has now
known what she was not supposed know and
hear.
When he was brought to the court to be
arraigned, the court discovered that the victim
was a minor and decided to shelve the trial. The
presiding Magistrate, Mrs M. B. Folami ordered
that the matter should be transferred to a Family
Court at Ikeja.