Lagos State Police have arrested 72 year old John Udin for the death of his 14 year old daughter Ejiro over a disagreement on which church she attends.
The mother of the dead girl, Comfort Udin, said her husband was very angry over the choice of the daughter to attend another church separate from the one he usually attends, and hit her in the head with a log containing nails.
According to reports, it all started last week Tuesday, when the deceased and others told their father that they were going to church other than the church which he attends.
The argument over which church to attend led to hostility between the man on one hand and his wife and children on the other hand.
The father was said to have been whipping the daughter at any occasion due to feeling slighted over the matter.
He was also alleged to have locked the bleeding girl and her mother in the kitchen and the girl was not taken to the hospital until after five days.
The suspect, denied killing his daughter, claiming that he wanted to hit his wife, who dodged the log and pushed her daughter to it.
He narrated that on the fateful Tuesday, his wife and daughter had attacked him, after he told them not to go to church that evening because they did not give him food and they would not come back till the following day.
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