I Thought It Was Normal For Fathers To Have Sex With Their Daughter - 16 Year Old Victim

An 18 year old girl whose name has been withheld in order to protect her identity revealed to Ghana's Joy News’ correspondent, Beatrice Adu that her father forcibly started having sex with her when she was just 12 years old.

At only 16 years old, the girl became pregnant, confused and scared. “I was pregnant but I didn’t know I was pregnant”, the girl told Beatrice Adu. She could not tell her aunties and other relatives about her ordeal because her father had warned against it.

The now 18-year-old does not know who her mother is. Her mother left her father when she was just 3 months old. She said her father started penetrating her vagina gradually until it was open enough for sexual intercourse.

In her words:

“He goes to work and comes back late to worry me. He sometimes tells me not to wear anything to
bed. He sometimes shows pornographic movies to me but I don’t like the movie”, the girl said in an emotion-filled voice.

She said when she attempts to throw away the phone on which his abusive father was showing her the pornographic clips, he would beat her.

“For me I thought it was something that all fathers do to their daughters. My aunties became suspicious and started asking me questions but he told me to tell them that I was raped”, she said.

After delivery, her 45-year-old father forced her to take on a family planning programme so he could continue having sex with her.

The girl’s ordeal was reported to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service and the father was arrested. However, Joy News sources say he is currently walking a free man.