Woman file for a divorce after husband raped & impregnated 13- year old daughter

A mother of a 13-year-old girl that was raped
and impregnated by her father has filed for a
divorce before a Sharia court Magajin Gari,
Kaduna, Kaduna State.

In a writ of summon submitted before the court,
the mother, Maryam Manta alleged that her 40-
year-old husband, Hafizu Isyaku raped his 13-
year-old daughter, (names withheld) and got her
pregnant when they were staying at Mararaba, a
surburb of Abuja.

She revealed that the shameful
act forced her to abandon their home in Maraba,
where she lives with her husband and relocated
to Kaduna with their six children..

She told the court further, “When I
returned from where I went to see my
parents, as a mother and as a woman, I
noticed my daughter was not behaving
normal and at the same time sick.

“But I didn’t suspect anything because my
husband do constantly gave her some
concoctions to drink which he claimed
was going to heal the daughter’s ailment.

“But when the ailment persisted and I
noticed my daughter had missed her
period, I questioned and threatened her to
tell me if she had any affair with a man
and she eventually opened up to me that
her father had been making love to her.

“So, when I confronted Hafizu with the
issue, he cried and confessed about
joining a cult group which mounted
pressure on him to get his daughter
pregnant and also abort it as part of the
sacrifice.

“I became confused and cried my life out
and he promised to disssociate himself
from the cult and I went together with him
to the hospital where the pregnancy was
aborted,” she told the court.
She said further that, she later found out that the
father continued to have sexual affair with their
daughter even after the abortion, confirming to
have caught him redhanded in the act.

“I became heartbroken and absconded
from his home, that is Maraba and
returned to Kaduna with all my six
children. It was when I arrived Kaduna that
I reported the issue to the District Head of
Kabala Doki, Danlami Bawa who invited
my husband and I. After all discussions, I
sought for divorce,” she said.