Father “impregnates” 12-year-old daughter, “serially rapes” her 10-year-old sister

Akate Thomas has been raping his two daughters for a while now, a prosecutor told a magistrate court in Nigeria.

The 42-year-old father also threatened to kill the girls if they told anyone about the “constant forceful sexual intercourse,” prosecutor Omaye Ujata told the court on Tuesday.

The alleged violent incest took place in Benue State where the man lives with his two young girls aged 10 and 12.

Akate upped the tone of his death threats after one of the girls, the 12-year-old, became pregnant, the prosecutor said.

No one knew what was going on until one Francis Omanga learnt of the apparent crime and alerted the police, the prosecutor told the Markurdi magistrate who heard the case for the first time.

Akate denied the prosecutor’s claims.

He was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum, who should be a blood relation.

The case was adjourned till Monday, November 16, for further hearing.