A man was last Wednesday alleged to have slept with his 16 -year-old daughter (names withheld) at Yimi village in Zuba, Gwagwalada Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The incident happened at about 9:34 p.m. when the father went into one of the rooms where his children were sleeping, woke up his daughter and took her into his bedroom.

In the bedroom, the father ordered his daughter to remove her clothes and allegedly raped her.

The man threatened to kill the girl if she told her mother what he did to her. The following morning, however, the mother discovered that the girl was bleeding and decided to find out what went wrong with her but that she refused to talk despite efforts by even other members of the family.

The mother immediately invited members of the vigilante at Zuba, who came to interrogate her before she opened up that her father raped her.

“The girl and the mother were taken to the vigilante office at Zuba. The father also joined them at the office, where the matter was tabled,” a resident said.

The father later admitted sleeping with his daughter during interrogation by the vigilantes but that some elders of the community intervened in the matter and later took the girl to hospital for treatment.

The estranged father divorced his wife after the Inbreeding incident became public but the elders waded in to resolve the matter.

A member of the vigilante in the area, who craved anonymity, confirmed the incident, saying the matter was resolved at their office after some elders intervened.

“In fact, the girl was taken to a private hospital at Zuba, where she was treated and discharged,” he said.

Ada Igboanugo