Narrating her ordeal to newsmen, the woman, Modupe, revealed that the abuse began after she discovered her husband had impregnated a young woman she identified as Sade Falaye, who was close to the family.
The estranged wife of a 54-year-old clearing agent and Lagos resident, Oluwaseyi Faturoti, who was arrested in March for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl, has recounted years of alleged abuse and abandonment she endured while married to the suspect.
SaharaReporters in March reported that Faturoti, a clearing agent from Tincan Island, Apapa, allegedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl when the girl’s mother, his former lover, left the child in his care.
The victim’s mother had discovered blood on the floor the next day and questioned her daughter. Initially, the daughter declined to speak but later revealed the horrific truth.
Narrating her ordeal to newsmen, the woman, Modupe, revealed that the abuse began after she discovered her husband had impregnated a young woman she identified as Sade Falaye, who was close to the family.
She said, “I have a lot of evidence including my body where he beat me. I think the shame of the girl, Sade Falaye, he impregnated made him run away from the house. Because the girl was like my girl.”
She said she unknowingly carried and cared for the child fathered by her husband with Sade, an auxiliary nurse who used to treat the family during medical emergencies.
The discovery led to a violent fallout between the couple.
“The girl gave birth to the baby and I didn’t know the baby belonged to him (her husband). I used to carry the baby in my car and bring the baby home, not knowing that the baby belongs to him. It was after seven months the girl gave birth that I found out that the baby belongs to my husband.
“When I found out, I challenged him and we fought, since then, he started beating me every day.
“He then said that I must pack out from his house. I told him I would never pack out because I did all the Labour when we built the house, and I have four children for him, hence, he can never send me out of the house,” she said.
Despite the intervention of family members, she said her husband insisted on her eviction.
“My mother and his mother came from the village, despite all the cheating he cheated on me, my mother begged him to allow me to take care of my four children so that I would not become a single mother but he refused and insisted that I must pack out.”
She added that her refusal to vacate their home led to her husband leaving instead.
“I told him that he could pack out of the house if he wanted to leave. Because he said he wanted to bring in another woman, and that he can’t stay in the same house with me, I told him to take the woman to another house, not our three-bedroom house with my four children,” she said.
Speaking further, she lamented years of repeated infidelity by her ex-husband.
“A lot has been happening about his womanising behaviour. We have been fighting. At a point my mother advised me to let him do whatever he wanted. I let him be. I’m still in the house. He is the one that packed out.
“The girl he impregnated is an auxiliary nurse who used to treat us whenever my children, me or my husband were sick. She was not living with us but we worship in the same church.”
According to her, her ex-husband has not contributed in any way to the welfare of their children since his departure in 2016.
“Since 2016, he left me and the four children without taking responsibility for any one of them till now. I have suffered so much in his hands.
“Currently, I have three children in the university but he blocked all of my children’s numbers. I’m the only one sponsoring them without him contributing a penny.”
She lamented that her financial struggles had been severe.
She also revealed that despite impregnating Sade, who was 29 at the time, her husband never married her and has since been involved with and separated from multiple other women.
Concluding her account with a painful summary of her family’s current plight, she said, “My husband is a violent man.
“I have scars all over my body where he beat me. All my children are hungry in school. Since last week I have been looking for N2000 to send to my daughter in school.”
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