Court Dissolves 9-Year-Old Marriage As Husband Rapes Wife’s Daughters

A Customary Court in Ibadan, on Thursday, dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between one Mary Dickson and John Dickson for persistently raping the two daughters she had before marrying him.

The president of the court, Ademola Odunade pronounced the union dissolved, as he awarded custody of the two children produced by the duo to the plaintiff and directed the respondent to pay N10,000 as the children’s monthly feeding allowance.

Mary had petitioned the court to dissolve her union to her husband citing sexual exploitation of her daughters and threat to life as reasons.

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According to her, “After I got married to Dickson, the two daughters I had with my first husband sometimes came to spend some days with us, and there was no problem because they were then eight and 12 years old respectively.

“However, I later discovered that the one who was 12 stopped coming to visit me because my husband had defiled her and had regularly molested her and her younger sister sexually.

“Then, that daughter of mine told her friends who eventually informed me because she was afraid of telling me based on the fact that Dickson had threatened to kill her if she told me.

“Meanwhile, Dickson’s action of sleeping with both mother and daughters is an abomination in our hometown in Cross River State.”