The police in Ogun have arrested a 52-year-old man, Isiaka Obadairo, for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl (names withheld).
Obadairo’s arrest followed a complaint from the mother of the victim, one Mrs Comfort Ajayi, who reported at Sango Divisional Police Headquarters that while she was away to work, the suspect, who is living in the same compound with her family, called her 6-year-old daughter under the pretence of sending her on an errand, lured her into his room and forcibly had carnal knowledge of her.
On receiving the report, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Sango Ota, Superintendent Ogunwale Akinsola, dispatched a team of detectives to the scene of the incident and promptly arrested the suspect.
The victim has been taken to hospital for immediate medical attention.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, had ordered the transfer of the suspect to Anti- Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for proper investigation and possible prosecution of the suspect.
