26-year-old man arrested for d£filing a 9-month-old baby in their mother’s room in Lagos

A 26-year-old man, Agboola Adebayo, has been apprehended for allegedly d£filing a nine-month-old baby, police in Lagos state have disclosed.

According to the state police command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Wednesday, the case was reported to the Police on Monday at about 10:00 pm by a concerned member of the public.

He said the suspect, who’s from Railway Ijora Badia, allegedly went to the apartment where the baby’s mother laid her on the floor and quickly went to buy something outside the compound. The suspect allegedly had s+xual int£rcourse with the little baby and immediately ran away from the scene.

“The mother of the baby, aged 16 years, came to the station with the baby and was issued a medical form to enable her to take the child to the hospital for urgent medical attention. However, on Tuesday at about 11:15pm, the suspect was smoked out from his hiding by detectives from Ijora Badia Division,” he said.

The spokesman said that the complainant and suspect had made statements, adding that the suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation. Hundeyin added that the scene of the crime was photographed when the police visited, and a stained pant with bl@@d was recovered as an exhibit.