The Lagos State Police Command\u2019s Gender Unit has arrested a 44-year-old man and his 19-year-old son for allegedly raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl.
\nThe Lagos State Police Command\u2019s spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, said in a press statement that the case was reported at the gender unit of the command by the mother of the victim.
\nHe said that\u00a0 the unit received a complaint that a minor was being defiled by her sister\u2019s husband identified as Kabiru Oke of No. 1,\u00a0 Olatikupo St, Egbeda and his son,\u00a0 Oke Faruq,19,\u00a0 living within the same premises with his father.
\nHe said that\u00a0 the girl had been living with the suspects for some time now, and that her sister\u2019s husband\u00a0 started having carnal knowledge of her since\u00a0 \u00a0last October.
\n\u201cThe second suspect, being the son of the first suspect,\u00a0 started having unlawful carnal knowledge of the same minor on Jan. 10, 2019.
\n\u201cThe suspects have constantly threatened to kill the victim if she ever tells anybody about the affairs. The victim exposed them when her mother suspected some changes in her and discovered that she was pregnant\u201d, Elkana said.
\nThe PPRO\u00a0 said that the girl had been\u00a0 taken to Mirabel Centre by the gender unit of the police command\u00a0 for medical examination, while the two suspects had been\u00a0 arrested and charged to a magistrate court .
\n\u201cThe case was, however\u00a0 adjourned till May 13, 2019 while the suspects were remanded in Kirikiri Prisons.\u201d he said.
\nIn a related development, the PPRO said that one Marainerume Alfred, 45 ,of Oke Itunu Church Close, Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos had also been arrested for defiling a 14-year-old girl.
\nHe said the matter was also reported to the gender unit of the police command by the mother of the survivor.
\n\u201cThe complainant stated that they were\u00a0 living\u00a0 in the same street with the suspect.
\n\u201cThat the suspect usually invited the survivor into his shop while on her way from school, along Iyana Ejigbo road,\u00a0 where he was selling\u00a0 Nigerian Films and would have unlawful sexual intercourse with her.
\n\u201cThe suspect\u00a0 committedc the\u00a0 crime between May 2018\u00a0 and\u00a0 March 27, 2019.
\n\u201cThe suspect in his statement to the\u00a0 police said that he turned the survivor into his sex partner after he divorced his wife in May 2018.
\n\u201cThe matter was discovered on\u00a0 March 27 , 2019 at 2p.m.,\u00a0 by the survivor\u2019s grandmother who perceived some odours from the survivor\u2019s body when she returned home and subjected her to questioning.
\n\u201cThe survivor opened up to her grandmother and narrated the whole story.
\n\u201cShe further stated that, the suspect threatened that she would\u00a0 \u00a0die if she ever disclosed it to her parents.
\n\u201cThat the suspect usually gave her some drugs to take and equally mixrf salt and water for her to take after sex to prevent her from getting pregnant.
\nThe PPRO said , \u201cInvestigation is ongoing, and the suspect will be charged to court for defilement after its completion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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