A 39-years old man, Mr. Sunday Ejeh, has been arrested by the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Police over an alleged defilement of a nine-years old girl in Ugbogi community, Ighobazuwa , Ovia North West local government of Edo State
The suspect, Mr. Ejeh was said to have lured the victim to his room where he had sexual intercourse with her and gave her N600 after the act.
The Edo State Command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident,said the suspect has been arrested by the police.
SP Nwabuzor said the suspect was arrested following a report that he defiled a nine-year old girl in the community.
“investigation carried out by the gender unit of the command criminal’s investigative department revealed that Sunday has criminal tendency of assembling young girls of age between nine, eight, seven, six down to two years and randomly in the presence of this girls have sexual intercourse with them,” he added.
The police image spokeperson said the suspect at the end of his crime would give them N600 to take home.
Confessing to the journalists, Mr. Sunday said he only had sexual intercourse with the girl sometime in January this year and has not had such with any other girl in the area.
“The incident happened sometime in January when this girl came to my house and demanded that I should give her money and have sexual intercourse with her..
“I said no but she said if I refused to do it, she will shout that I want to rape her. So, I agreed and after sleeping with her I gave her N1,500 and she left,” he claimed.
Sunday said he was surprised the community youths came to arrest him when he came back from the farm and started beating him that he raped the nine years old girl and later took him to the police station.
