The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old farmer, identified as Sunday Ejeh, for allegedly d£filing a nine-year-old girl in Ugbogi community in Ighobazuwa, Ovia North West LGA of the state.
The suspect was said to have lured the victim to his room, had s+xual intercourse with her and given her N600 after the act.
Confirming the arrest in a statement, the command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said: “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.
The suspect, at the end of the crime, would give his victims N600 to take home.”
Speaking in an interview with journalists, Ejeh 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 sl££ping with her, I gave her N1, 500 and she left.”
He added that the community youths seized him last week when he came back from the farm and started b€ating him that he r@ped the girl and later took him to the police station.
