‘Missing’ “I had gone to the market to buy foodstuff one day, only to return and discovered that my daughter was missing. We have been staying with a relative since December 2016. “When I confronted my husband, he beat me to stupor and drove me and my daughter away. “When I asked her initially, she did not talk until I involved one of her teachers, who was taking her extramural classes, before she opened up. Narrating how this latest development came to the fore, she said: “I discovered something strange about the way she was walking when she returned home. She said it happened again when the victim was six years. The victim’s mother told Vanguard that she caught her husband with his manhood inside their daughter’s mouth when she was nine months.
But her mother, who claimed to have been suspecting that all was not well with her daughter, subjected the latter to questioning, in the process of which she opened up. Vanguard learned that after police and family members’ intervention, the suspect brought his daughter back home in December 2016. During her stay there, the victim was stopped from going to school, as she was assisting her father’s mistress to sell oil bean seed, otherwise known as ugba, at the Alaba International Market. He reportedly took her to his mistress’ home at Ilogbo. Vanguard was informed that the suspect, identified simply as Adimawu, a commercial bus driver, took his daughter away from their Isheri apartment in May 2016, following a misunderstanding with his wife. At the moment, the victim, who was alleged to have been forced out of school while in Junior Secondary School 1, had been treated for several sexually-transmitted diseases allegedly contracted during the said period. She said it started with her father and his mistress holding her legs apart for the woman’s son to rape her. This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry which reexamine these questions.When she was 9 months, my husband put his manhood in her mouth-Mother …I took my daughter away ‘cos her mother ran mad-Suspect By Evelyn Usman A 12-year-old girl, yesterday, gave a startling revelation of how her father and his step-son allegedly took turns to rape her for seven months in Ilogbo area of Lagos.
Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud’s view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives-a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association.
That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Is inbreeding harmful? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the consequences? After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues.