(CRIME) A Married man and father of 3 rapes/impregnates Lawyer's 16-year-old daughter

A 42-year old man has been apprehended by the police for allegedly raping and impregnating a 16-year old girl who is the daughter of a legal practitioner in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
The ugly act was carried out at Igando where both Rasak Ishola, the defendant, and parents of the victim reside.
The Rappist man is also said to have allegedly aborted the pregnancy without her parent’s knowledge.
Complications arising from the abortion resulted to ill health.





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.
Ogun State-born, Ishola 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 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 denied the rape charge against him and said that the girl is above 18 and just gained admission into Delta State University as a first year student.
Ishola said that when she became pregnant, the girls' father, who is a legal practitioner, started making trouble with him, and all his possible efforts to settle the issue with the lawyer proved abortive because  he could not meet his conditions.
When  Asked what could have made him commit such an act, he said it was temptation and not that he actually raped her.
Ishola said the affairs was kept secret from his wife and because of the incident his wife has has come to know 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.

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