Ebun Francis with agency report || The Niger state police command on Wednesday in Kundu, village, Rafi Local Government Area, arrested a 45-year-old-man, over alleged rape of his three-year-old stepdaughter.
Abdullahi Mayaki, Police Inspector attached to the state Child Rights Protection Agency, said that the mother of the girl, Malama Fatima Bawa, reported the matter to the agency.
According to Mayaki, Bawa the mother of the girl told the agency that she caught her husband sexually abusing her daughter after he approached her for sex at night and she refused him.
“My husband likes sex too much, so I chased him out of the room in the night and locked the door.
“It was after I chased him out that I heard my daughter, who was sleeping in the parlour, crying.
“I quickly ran to her only to see my husband abusing my daughter sexually.
“I am a breastfeeding mother and I spend the whole of my day taking care of the children, yet my husband does not allow me to rest,” she told the agency in her statement.
The nursing mother alleged that she saw blood stained and semen on the girl’s body and informed her brother-in-laws wife about the incident who advised her to take the girl to the hospital.
The suspect during interrogation denied the allegation, claiming that he only intervened whenever his wife beat the girl.
The Director-General of the agency, Hajiya Mariam Kolo while describing the act as ‘ungodly’, said that the victim would be treated in the hospital and that the suspect would be charged to court in accordance with Section 18 of the Child Rights Law.