Policemen at Igando division, Lagos have arrested a 42-year- old man for allegedly impregnating and aborting a two-month-old pregnancy of a teenager in Igando area of Lagos..
The suspect identified as Rasak Isho, a married man, was alleged to have impregnated the 17-year-old who lives in the same area with him.
Trouble, as gathered, started for the teenager after she reportedly missed her monthly circle.
She reportedly expressed her fears to Isho, who told her to exercise patience. The father of three was said to have later taken the teenager to an undisclosed hospital where the pregnancy was allegedly aborted.
But the bubble burst after she reportedly took ill and on inquiry by her parents, opened up on what happened, consequent upon which the Police.
At the station, Isho reportedly admitted to having a relationship with the teenager for six months, begging not to let his wife know.
Although the teenager claimed to have been raped at the station but Isho denied, saying she consented to his advances, adding that while wooing her, she told him she was 19 years.
“She never told me she was 17 years. She said she was 19 and that she was a 100-level student at the Delta State University, Abraka. We started dating six months ago. When I approached her, she gave in and never refused my sexual advances.
“I swear I did not rape her. I have begged her parents to forgive me, that I will never do that again. It was temptation and the handiwork of Satan. Please, my wife must not hear of this ”
The case, according to police sources, has been charged to the Ejigbo magistrate’s court from where it was transferred to a family court in Ikeja, on discovering that the case involved a teenager.
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