The police in Ondo State have arrested a 38-year-old man, Sunday Udoh, for allegedly impregnating his 15-year-old daughter and attempting to procure an abortion for her.
SP Funmilayo Odunlami, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, made this known in a statement on Friday in Akure.
Odunlami said that on April 26, 2022, policemen attached to Ile-Oluji Division received a complaint of an attempt to procure an abortion by Udoh at a healthcare centre in Ile-Oluji, Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of the state.
During investigation, she said the police discovered that the suspect was attempting to procure abortion for his daughter because he had been sleeping with her.
The case, she said, is currently being handled by the Gender Office of the State Criminal Investigation Department in Akure.