She said she did abortion thrice following the discovery. The victim revealed to Igbere TV how the stepfather got her pregnant. She told our correspondent that the stepfather threatens her life if she tells anyone whenever she threatens to report the case.īut Akpan’s luck finally ran out as he was caught pants down penultimate week by the victim’s younger sister, although he denied it. She said her mother lived separately with them, as she was only made to stay with the stepfather, his brother and her own sister. Akpan started abusing her while she was little. Narrating the horror experience under her stepfather’s roof to Igbere TV, the victim said Mr. The victim (names withheld) was rescued by the NGO while at the verge of committing suicide, after several plea for leniency from her stepfather fell on deaf ears. Akpan from Akwa Ibom, lives in Sadiku street by Trinity bus stop, Berger Suya, Olodi Apapa, Lagos, where he carried out the illicit act for years.Īkpan was arrested on Saturday morning following the intervention of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), the Women of Inestimable Values. A middle-aged man identified as Mr Owen Akpan, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for sexually abusing his teenage stepdaughter since she was just age nine.
