the Ogun State Police Command has
arrested a 50-year-old man, Joseph Sunday, for allegedly raping a
13-year-old-girl in Ilaro, Yewa North Local Government Area of the
state.
The suspect allegedly ambushed the
victim while she was on her way to fetch water and dragged her to an
uncompleted building in the Abule Taju area of the town, where he raped
her
.The state Police Public Relations
Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested following a
complaint from the mother of the victim.
He said, “The policemen at the station
where the case was reported immediately arrested the man. On
interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime.”
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of
Police, said the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has
ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Anti-Human Trafficking
and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department for further investigation.
He said the Commissioner of Police also
appealed to parents to always be watchful of their children in order to
prevent them from becoming victims of people with devilish intentions.
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