Two men, Mr. Mayegun Alani (60) and Mr. John Onose (54), have been arrested for allegedly defiling minors in Ogun and Delta states. Alani, according to Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, was apprehended by policemen attached to Ota Division for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl. The PPRO disclosed that the incident occurred last Thursday in Sango, Ado- Odo/Ota Local Government Area. According to him, the suspect is the landlord of the victim’s mother and has confessed that he had been having unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl for at least a month.
He said: “The police were informed by the mother of the victim who noticed that the girl felt pains when she was taking her bath with unusual signs. The mother asked the little baby some questions which gave a clue that the landlord was responsible for her defilement.
“The suspect was arrested by the police immediately. Initially, he denied the allegation but later confessed to the crime that he has been having unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl for at least a month. And medical report confirmed that the girl has been defiled.”
Meanwhile, Onose, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) councillor in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State allegedly defiled a seven-yearold girl (name withheld). The suspect allegedly lured the girl to a bush near his house on Fovie Street, Sapele.
When contacted, the DPO, Police Division Headquarters, Sapele, CSP Badaru Musa, confirmed Onose’s arrest. The incident, which occurred on Tuesday afternoon, didn’t attract the attention of the victim’s mother until the following day following the consistent complaint of the child that her “bombom” (buttocks) was paining her.
But when the girl’s mother, Mrs. Onome Ojakovo, confronted Onose, he allegedly threatened to deal with her should she drag his name in the mud. The child, a KG2 pupil currently in critical condition at Central Hospital, Sapele, was said to be playing with two other children while her mother, a neighbour to the suspect, was washing clothes outside.
Ojakovo said when her child came out; she did not suspect anything, though the child told her that her bombom’ was paining her. She said: “When my daughter came out from the corner of Mr. Onose’s house, she complained of pains in her ‘bombom,’ but I didn’t pay serious attention to it, because I just thought she might hit her buttocks on the ground will playing, so I asked her to go and wash herself. “But when she came back from school the next day and was still complaining of the pains, I decided to pull her pants, what I saw shocked me. My daughter was bleeding from her private part.
“In my shock I raised the alarm which attracted our neighbours, it was then it dawned on me that my child has been sexually violated. I started crying and I couldn’t imagine who could be this wicked to have done this evil to my little child? “I was then advised to put salt in hot water with disinfectant.
While forcing my daughter outside to sit on the hot water, Mr. Onose came out of his compound and was walking to and fro. And when my daughter saw him, she was shocked and pointed to him as the man that injured her.
“When I asked her how? She told me that the man called her to the backyard close to the bush, held and covered her mouth, while he inserted his fingers into her private part; that the man only let her go when he heard me calling her, but threatened her not to tell anyone.” When contacted, Musa said the police were still investigating the incident and were waiting for the medical report on the medical examination conducted by the doctors at the Central Hospital before they could issue any official statement.
He said: “We are currently investigating the case, but until the medical report on the test conducted on the girl and the suspect we cannot make official statement. But because of the nature of the case, the suspect is currently in detention.”
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