Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old man identified as Adeyemi Babatunde for allegedly defiling his five-year-old daughter.
The suspect was arrested following a complaint by the victim’s mother at Ijebu-Mushin Divisional Police Headquarters.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday.
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According to Oyeyemi, the victim’s mother noticed that her daughter had been complaining of pain whenever she wants to urinate.
The PRO added that the mother further lamented that her daughter groaned whenever she bathed her.
She was quoted as saying that she resorted to pressuring the girl to tell her what happened to her private part.
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Oyeyemi said, “It was then that the victim informed her that her father laid her on the bed and inserted his manhood into her private part when the mother was not at home.
“Upon receipt of the report, the DPO Ijebu Mushin Division, CSP Simire Hillary, quickly detailed his detectives to go after the suspect and he was eventually arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to committing the crime but claimed not to know what came over him as at that time.”
The PPRO said the state Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution.
