Edo Govt raises alarm over rising cases of fathers defiling female children

The Edo State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Eugenia Abdallah, has raised the alarm implicit the expanding cases of fathers’ allegedly sexually abusing their pistillate children successful the state.

Abdallah disclosed that much than 72 cases of defilement were recorded successful Edo authorities betwixt January and July 2026, with fathers allegedly liable for implicit 50 percent of the cases.

“We person recorded 72 cases of maltreatment of minors betwixt January and July this year. We person prosecuted respective of these cases successful court.

“Fifty percent of these minors are abused by their ain fathers, with the victims ranging from 2 to 10 years old.

“For instance, determination is simply a small miss presently successful our custody who was impregnated by her father. She is conscionable 14 years aged and is 8 months large arsenic we speak,” the commissioner said.

DAILY POST reports that the commissioner spoke astatine a property briefing organised by the Edo State Ministry of Information and Strategy on Thursday in Benin City.

Abdallah said the 14 year’s aged neighbour reported the lawsuit to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development aft the begetter had perpetrated the enactment and ran distant from the house.

According to her, the insignificant was pleading with the authorities not to person her begetter arrested, saying that she loves him.

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