Nigerian Farmer Nabbed For Defiling Nine-Year-Old Girl In Edo
Police have detained 39-year-old man named Sunday Ejeh.
He was arrested in Edo State for reportedly defiling a nine-year-old girl.
According to PUNCH Metro, the incident took place in the Ugbogi neighborhood of Ighobazuwa, in the state’s Ovia North West Local Government Area, and was reported to the police.
According to reports, the suspect took the girl to his room, engaged in sexual activity with her, and then gave her N600.
On Sunday, the incident was confirmed by Chidi Nwabuzor, the state police public relations officer.
An investigation carried out by the Gender Unit of the command’s Criminal Investigation Department revealed that the suspect has a criminal tendency of assembling young girls between two and nine years, and having s*xual intercourse with them,” Nwabuzor said.
The police spokesman added that the suspect, at the end of the crime, would give his victims N600 to take home.
In an interview with journalists, Ejeh said he only had s*xual intercourse with the said nine-year-old girl sometime in January and had not done the same to any other girl in the area.
He said, “The incident happened in January when this girl came to my house and asked that I should give her money and have s*xual intercourse with her.
“I said no but she said if I refused to do it, she will shout that I wanted to r*pe her. So, I agreed and after sleeping with her, I gave her N1, 500 and she left.”
Nigerian Farmer Nabbed For Defiling Nine-Year-Old Girl In Edo
The suspect said the community youths seized him last week when he came back from the farm and started beating him that he r*ped the girl and later took him to the police station.