"Coupled with general emotional abuse and generic derogatory comments about LGBTQ+ issues from my family, I learned to curb, hide, or suppress most of my emotional impulses by grade school. The therapy has helped wonders, but so has being honest with everyone." - u/bantamw I feel energized and enthusiastic for the future. Very shaky, but for the first time in many years I don’t feel depressed. We dug into my past trauma and also my sexuality.Īll this is still very new to me. I was so depressed, I ended up going into the garage to try and kill myself using an exit bag. I ended up being sent away to the USA for work for a few months which gave me time to reflect. I felt myself suddenly realize something but couldn’t deal with it. At one point he hugged me and said ‘It’ll be ok.' I could feel something well up inside me, a whole load of feelings came up, and I cried. He could see when I was taking that there was something there. We started chatting about stuff and the conversation got onto mental health. One weekend, I ended up going on a scuba diving trip with a close male friend who I’d known online for ages. Over the next few years of having kids and settling down, rather than finding normality and feeling ok, I progressively got more and more depressed. I don’t know if it was lust rather than love, but we got on well and got married. She was my first relationship and the only girl I’d ever been attracted to. “Investigation is still ongoing,” she added."I met my wife when I was 23 on a scuba dive trip. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Idowu’s arrest. Whenever he did it, he would clean up the mess and warn me not to tell anybody.”Ī police source said the suspect also allegedly raped Victoria’s elder sister, who attended a college of education in Lagos State. My father deflowered me several months ago, and he had been raping me since then. Punch Metro learnt that Victoria told the police in her statement that her father deflowered her. I thought she was mentally unstable, until the man was arrested some days ago.” She said, “The girl came to me on the day she was fleeing home and said her father had been raping her. Speaking with Punch Metro, a neighbour, who did not want his name in print, said the victim had also reported to her while fleeing the house.
She claimed the father started from the beginning of the year.” He would thereafter warn her not to tell anyone.
She said anytime the family slept at night, the father would sneak into her room and rape her. “The victim said she could not bear it anymore as her father had raped her several times in the year. I reported the case at the police station in Badagry immediately and the man was arrested. The aunt thereafter contacted our organisation. He said, “The victim fled to a relative, who is her aunt in the Ikotun area. It was learnt that Victoria, who had been kept in government’s custody, was r*ped while her mother was bedridden.Ī social worker, identified only as Ibrahim, who reported the matter to the police, said the victim fled to her aunt in the Ikotun area. Punch Metro reports that Idowu was arrested on Thursday, June 23, by the Badagry Police Division.
The suspect was said to have travelled for a prayer meeting on the day his daughter fled home. It was learnt that the matter got to the attention of the police after the victim, Victoria (pseudonym), packed from her father’s apartment to put up with a family friend in the Ikotun area. He has however been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for commiting the act.Īccording to Punch Metro, the man committed the crime at the Aradagun, Badagry area of Lagos. A man identified as one Timothy Idowu, has been found out to have r*ped his own 15-year-old daughter.