A
34-year-old driver, Oyewale Ojo, has been arrested by the Oyo State
Police Command for having carnal knowledge of a two-year-old daughter of
his colleague and neighbour.
The
man, who lives at Ojoo area of Ibadan, was caught hiding behind the
door in the room of Mr and Mrs Toki, parents of the girl, with the baby
(name withheld) spread on the bed and her private part smeared with
semen.
The
suspect is currently undergoing interrogation at that State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, Ibadan, where he was
transferred to from Ojoo police station in which the case was initially
reported.
According
to the mother of the baby, Madam Ajarat Toki, a herbal concoction
seller at Iwo Road motor park at Ojoo, the little girl was with her
father at home on Monday, October 21, while she was doing her business
within the park. “I had to take her home that day because of an
impending rain. On getting home, I entered through the back door and as I
opened the door of our room, I met my girl with her thighs open on the
bed, staring at something behind the door. On checking what might have
attracted her so much, I was shocked to find Ojo cowering behind the
door.
“When
I asked him what he was doing in our room, he said he wanted to give me
a video disc I asked for earlier. My daughter started vomiting and when
I went to look at her, I saw that he had ejaculated around her private
part. It was my noise that woke our neighbours. When we got to the
hospital to confirm her medical status, the report indicated that the
little girl had indeed been defiled.”
The
victim’s distraught father said, “The man is not a friend of mine,
though we operate at the same motor park at Ojoo, so I was wondering why
he should enter my house. I immediately called the police and he was
arrested.”
Crime
Reports learnt that the suspect also attempted to escape with handcuffs
at Ojoo Division and that it took some efforts by the police and some
members of the public to arrest him as he ran with all his might. He was
immediately transferred to State CID, Iyaganku.
In
an interview with journalist, Ojo is married to two wives and has four
children said, “When I got there, l met the girl crying and I carried
her and put on the T.V for her so that she could watch it”.
Ojo
later confessed to have defiled the girl and claimed that he did not
know what led him to it. He later blamed it on devil, saying “I don’t
even understand how it happened.”
Reacting
to the incident, The Acting Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo
State, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ignatius Inyang expressed
dismay at the rate at which defilement and rapé cases keep increasing
within the society, adding that the suspect would be charged to court
after the completion of investigations.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
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