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This Nigerian Jailed 330 Years in the US for Raping His Daughter ….
This holiday season, Emmanuel Ngene is spending his sixth year inside
a South Eastern United States penitentiary. At 56, he has 225 years,
five months and ten days left to serve for first degree rape of his
daughter, a crime he continues to deny, supported by members of his
network of friends and family. Few years after he was incarcerated, Emma
Ngene had partial stroke from the stress of the trial and subsequent
imprisonment. Emmanue Ngene, like most aspiring young Nigerians whose
lives were mortgaged to a battered inflation-driven economy of early
80s, sought survival overseas. He chose the United States as his
destination for better life. He relocated in 1981. He would discover
that life in God’s own country was just an imaginary tale. On arrival,
Emmanuel desired education. But he had no money. Survival in a strange
place, alone, was then important to him. He engaged in menial jobs to
support his dreams of a better life here.
Years after he adapted to the lifestyle and surviving the culture shock
of a different environment, Emmanuel returned to his hometown in Eastern
Nigeria in search of a wife.
He found love in Mary, a home girl. They married months after.
Emmanuel became a regular visitor to his homeland from America;
frequenting his village to be with his new wife and family. He returned
every holiday, especially Christmas, to celebrate with his wife and
other members of the family. Their first child, a baby girl, was born on
November 9, 1998 in Nigeria. The couple would have two additional
children after the birth of their daughter.
In June 2007, Emmanuel’s wife and children came to the United States
to live in a two-bedroomed apartment with their father. Family and
friends said that marital problems manifested when the wife was shocked
at the strange standard of living in America as compared to what she was
used to in Nigeria.
She was also alleged to be disappointed that her husband was a
Taxicab driver, an unsteady source of financial income. Emmanuel was
gone all day, driving a taxi from morning and returned home at night
with not enough income to support the family. Soon, the parents began
arguing about money. Mary allegedly complained regularly of being bored
at home, caring for the children.
Emmanuel, frustrated by her daily musings about life in the United
States and insufficient income, encouraged his wife to get certification
for CNA: Certified Nurses Aid: she did, passed and got employed at one
of the nursing homes as a care giver: providing ageing American
population with daily assisted living and care. His wife’s new job,
allegedly introduced her to a new social environment. She immediately
began to explore her new found friends and friendship within her work
place.
Emmanuel suspected a change in his wife’s attitudes: she was no
longer the charming obedient wife he had in Nigeria. She would refuse
his s.exual desires and appeals. The marriage became tumultuous.
They were drifting apart as husband and wife: Emmanuel complained to
his friends that his wife was always gone and seemed no longer
interested in the marriage. It also affected his taxi cab business. He
often returned home midday to make sure the children were fed and cared
for. Most times, he alleged the wife was gone. When he asked her where
she had been, she yelled at him: ‘mind your business. I am a grown woman
and I can do whatever I want to do.’
Emma was raging inside. He thought he had a decent beautiful wife
that loved the family and the children. He thought it was until death do
them part! A wife he married and suffered to bring to America. Their
children were drifting apart too.
The circumstances that led Emmanuel Ngene into a lifetime jail are too complex. The stories are bizarre from both sides.
Ngene’s family sources, almost seven years after he was found guilty,
still believed he was railroaded by his wife and the judiciary. Their
stories remain consistent, each alleging that Ngene’s wife, Mary, may
have coerced her daughter to lie that her father raped and assaulted
her.
Part of the family version said that during one of Ngene’s lunch
visits home to check on the children, he allegedly found his then young
daughter in an explicit compromising position with a neighborhood boy,
in the family’s living room!. He became agitated, asked the boy to leave
immediately. Soon after the boy left, he grabbed his daughter and
spanked her intensely.
Mother allegedly walked in as dad was spanking their daughter. She
jumped on him and began to scratch and scream. Their daughter,
disengaged from the whip, cried profusely from the burns of the belt
whipping. She had lacerations on her butt. Their mother, while
restraining Emmanuel, instructed their daughter to dial 911. Few minutes
later, police came to their door, handcuffed Emmanuel and took him down
town.
The police officer, noticing the lacerations on the girl’s body,
requested for the ambulance to take the young girl and her mother to
hospital for medical observations and interrogation. Emmanuel was hauled
to jail!
5. Yaw: This dressing reminds me of the days of village headmaster. A classy and trendy school boy though.
