Man impregnates own daughter, forces her to abort it

I wonder what is going on in our society. Read and drop a comment.

His reason for sleeping with his
daughter was simple: She resembles
her mother, his late wife.This was the
reason a 42-year-old petty trader,
Emmanuel Ubom gave for committing
incest by repeatedly, raping his 15-
year-old daughter.
It was also alleged that he got her
impregnated and got them
terminated.
This abominable act between father
and daughter came to public notice
when the father-of-two was caught
red-handed by his co-tenant at their
one-room apartment in their face-me-
I-face-you tenement located at Etegbin
Area, Ojo, Lagos.
Trouble started for Ubom, an Akwa-
Ibom State indigene, when his
daughter, Uduaka Emmanuel, who
couldn’t condone his incessant sexual
demands anymore confided in one of
their neighbours who often play a
motherly role to her and her younger
sister since the demise of their
mother.
Acting on the tip, the middle-aged
woman (who begged to be
anonymous) monitored the
widower’s movement one sunny
afternoon, and consequently caught
him on the verge of having another
sexual romp with his daughter. The
woman raised an alarm which
attracted other neighbours and the
sex-crazed father was disgraced and
dragged to Ojo Police Station by his
angry neighbours.
Subsequently, Ubom was immediately
charged to court on a one-count
charge of unlawful defilement of his
daughter, a crime punishable under
Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of
Lagos State of Nigeria, 2001. In the
course of his trial, the visibly
remorseful man who pleaded guilty to
the charge preferred against him,
begged the court to tamper justice
with mercy for the sake of his
daughters.“I can’t deny the fact that I
used to sleep with my daughter. I
don’t know what came over me; it is
the devil’s work. Since I lost my wife
five years ago, I have been so lonely
and sexually starved, I don’t know
how it all started, but my first
daughter looks more like her mother;
she possesses the physique and
charming looks of her mother. I am
so ashamed of myself; I just pray my
daughters would forgive me, likewise
the spirit of their dead mother,”
Ubom pleaded before the court.
The police prosecutor, Assistant
Superintendent Friday Ezeh,
condemned the heinous act of the
accused and urged the court to award
the accused the appropriate
punishment so as to serve as
deterrent to other wayward fathers
and guardians who are sexually
molesting their daughters and wards
under their care.
“This act is becoming more rampant
in our present day society, and if
severe punishment is not handed to
offenders to serve as scapegoat to
others, the message wouldn’t be
driven home properly. Where I come
from, this barbaric act of father
forcefully having carnal knowledge of
the daughter could lead to ex-
communication or even ostracizing of
the man if found guilty. Ubom
shouldn’t be pitied,” he argued.