The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has detained Ibrahim Umar, an 18-year-old internally displaced person, for allegedly having illicit carnal knowledge of a primary three pupil in Kafin Hausa local government, Jigawa State.
CSC. Adamu Shehu, spokesman for the NSCDC Jigawa State Command, confirmed the arrest.
He said that the suspect, who is a family friend and an IDP from Maiduguri in Borno State, was apprehended in response to a complaint made by the sister of the 9-year-old victim, a primary three student who was repeatedly assaulted by the suspect.
NSCDC Arrests IDP For Allegedly Rap!ng Minor
According to the victim’s sister, the girl innocently revealed the ordeal to her friends in school, who later informed her on returning home.
“Upon hearing that I subjected the victim to questioning she told me that the suspect used to take her to an uncompleted building around the vicinity, usually in the evenings around 6 to 7 pm, and forcefully engaged her s3xually,” she said.
The NSCDC spokesman stated that the medical report indicates evidence of sexual penetration as the hymen is entirely absent. NSCDC Arrests IDP For Allegedly Rap!ng Minor
He said the suspect had been taken to court.