“Her brother said whenever I was not around, or I was outside washing clothes, daddy would send him and his other siblings inside the bedroom, while he would ask the victim to kneel down in between his legs and bend her head towards his manhood.
“Her siblings said it had been ongoing for a while and that they refused to tell me because the last time they did, their daddy kept beating them. That was when she said that daddy gave her the money after touching her private part. I asked her what she did for her father that made him give her money without giving her siblings.
And at times, he would beat them for no tangible reason. “After I withdrew the case, my husband began to beat the children at the slightest provocation. They pressurized me till I withdrew the case, after which he promised not to defile our daughter again. “Members of his family were shouting, saying that I had no right to report the case to the police, that it was a family issue that should be treated as one.
