The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old man, Sunday Ejeh, for the defilement of a nine-year-old girl in Ugbogi community, Ighobazuwa, Ovia North West local government of Edo State.
The culprit was accused of luring the victim to his apartment, having sexual intercourse with her, and then reportedly giving her N600 after the deed.
The Edo State Command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident said the suspects have been arrested by the police.
He said the suspect was arrested following a report that he defiled a nine-year-old girl in the community.
Nwabuzor said,
“Investigation carried out by the gender unit of the command criminal’s investigative department revealed that Sunday has a criminal tendency of assembling young girls of age between nine, eight, seven, six down to two years and randomly in the presence of this girls have sexual intercourse with them.
He said the suspect at the end of his crime would give them N600 to take home.
In an interview with journalists, Sunday said he only had sexual intercourse with the said nine years old girl sometimes in January this year and has not had sexual intercourse with any other girl in the area.
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“The incident happened sometime in January when this girl came to my house and demanded that I should give her money and have sexual intercourse with her”.
“I said no, but she said if I didn’t, she’d yell that I wanted to rape her.” So I consented, and after sleeping with her, I handed her N1,500, after which she went.
He claimed that when he returned from the farm, the village teenagers attacked him and accused him of raping a nine-year-old girl before taking him to the police station.