The long arm of the law has caught up with a man who for five years raped his own daughter thrice a week and impregnated her along the way.
After the girl, now 17, ran away from home after an especially abusive sexual assault on the night of August 6, 2014, the incest-addicted father, Edem Fedieley, reported to the police that his 17-year-old daughter was missing.
Fedieley, a driver by profession, was arrested after his junior high school (JHS) dropout daughter spilled the beans to the Accra police on the innumerable instances of sexual abuse and assault she had suffered at the hands of her biological father since age 12.
She revealed she became pregnant at 16 for her father, who then put her on Norplant, a five-year family planning contraceptive, after she was delivered of a baby boy last year.
The police quoted the girl as claiming that her father “usually mixed alcohol and honey and compelled me to drink it before he forcibly had sex with me three times in a week. It made me weak and drowsy”.
Totally traumatised by the forced invasion of August 6, and unable to face the prospect of another in two days’ time, the girl (name withheld) packed and abandoned her father’s house, literally disappearing into thin air.
Deprived of his incestuous booty for the first time in 60 months, Fedieley reported to the police on August 10 that his darling daughter, with whom he lived in the same house, had gone missing since the 6th.
He went back to the police the next day to inform them that he had discovered the whereabouts of his daughter and “led us to a house where his daughter and a 19-year-old boy were picked up for interrogation”.
Based on Fedieley’s complaint, the police initially charged the boy with abduction.
“However, during interrogation, the girl said she was abandoned by her mother when she was only seven months old and had been taken care of by her father ever since”, a police spokesman said, adding, “the girl said her father started having sex with her when she turned 12 and threatened her not to inform anyone about it or risk her life.”
Charged with incest, Fedieley will soon be put before the court for prosecution.