The Lagos State Police Command has arrested
seven men for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl in the Ajegunle area of the
state.
It was gathered that parents of the girl
suspected that something was wrong with her owing to the uncoordinated way she
was walking, following which she interrogated her.
Her father, a resident of Oduduwa Street, GRA,
Ikeja, said his daughter confessed to him after he threatened to flog her.
The father said six of the men live in the same
house with them, while the other suspect lives in the next compound.
He added that his daughter confessed that they
had been having carnal knowledge of her for over one month, adding that the
youngest of the suspects is 27 years old.
The angry father said her daughter disclosed to
him that after the first man raped her, he invited others to follow suit at the
same venue.
He said the girl also alleged that the suspects
usually threatened to tell her father that a man had sex with her if she did
not allow them to have their turns.
Policemen attached to Ajegunle Police Station
arrested the suspects at the weekend and detained them, while the girl was
taken to a private hospital on Ugbenwankwo Street, Ajegunle, for treatment.
Source: The Nation
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