NIGERIA
Pulse
A 38-year-old make-up artist, Mary Iyayi, has urged a Lagos Island Customary Court to dissolve her two-year-old marriage to her husband, Pastor Samuel Iyayi, due to marital rape and sexual abuse.
She told the court that her husband raped her when she was two-months-old pregnant, causing her to lose the pregnancy.
“My husband raped me and I lost a two-month old pregnancy in the process. I want the dissolution of my two-year-old marriage.”
My pastor-husband held my hands to the wall, so I could not move. I told him that I was pregnant but he did not listen, until he forcefully had sex with me.
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