Bayelsa: Police arrest 40-year-old man over alleged defilement of 12-year-old girl
Bayelsa: Police arrest 40-year-old man over alleged defilement of 12-year-old girl
By Idun Maximus
Operatives of the State Special Police Squad, Operation Doo Akpo, have arrested a 40-year-old man over allegations of forceful defilement, threat to life, and impregnation of a 12-year-old girl in the Dimrose area of Ebis in Biogbolo community of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The culprit, identified as Emeka, an Indigene of Anambra State and a businessman who shuttles between Yenagoa and Anambra, is married with four children.
According to the mother of the victim, her daughter was discovered to have been seven months pregnant when she fainted due to strange ailments.
“She confessed that her stepsister took her to the man before she was violated. She was a virgin, and the man continuously had canal knowledge of her with threats of death if she told anyone “, the mother said.
The mother claimed that the dastardly act was carried out during the time the victim was with her father and stepmother.
‘’She was even forcefully raped by this man in her father’s house. When she fainted, I took her to a pharmacy, and a pregnancy test and a scan were carried out; it was confirmed that she is pregnant. After telling the mother who was responsible, she later fainted at night, screaming that she was being spiritually attacked”, she said.
In a petition to the State Police Commissioner, the DO Foundation, through its Secretary, Tokoni Queen Dufugha, said the incident has brought pain, trauma, and embarrassment to the victim and her family.
The Do Foundation also sought the immediate transfer of the case to the State Police Command as it’s a case of defilement.
Speaking on the development, the Founder of the DO Foundation and President of the National Association of Women Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Dise Ogbise Goddy Harry, confirmed that within three days this week, women’s groups have recorded three cases of sexual abuse on boys and girls and two cases of physical violence on women.
According to her, “This is heartbreaking, and I wonder where we are heading if some male adults will boldly, without fear of our existing laws, still go ahead to abuse our children and women.”
“We are already on the matter, and I am encouraged by the decision of the victim’s family that they will not succumb to any settling of this case.
“For us in Do Foundation and the National Association of Women Against Gender Based Violence, all we want is justice for the victim, and that’s where our focus will be, in addition to giving her psycho socio-support.”
