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Detectives attached to the Oke-Odo Police Station,
Ile-Epo, Abule-Egba area of Lagos State have started quizzing an 18-year-old
man caught pant down having sex with a mad woman on the road.
The suspect, Chimaobi Peter, said he had not yet
penetrated before the screams of the woman alerted people.
But the woman family members said Peter had already
penetrated. They said also alleged that he decided to have sex with their aunt
for ritual purposes.
One of them said: “When he was dragged off her, she
couldn’t get up for more than three/four hours. She was extremely weak. There’s no doubt that
he used something on her.”
Although police are itching to prosecute Peter, but
the detectives needed all the evidenced they could get. One of the key crucial
evidence is to take the woman, identified simply as Iya Rasheedi to Mirabel
Centre, at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), to ascertain penile penetration.
The trouble however was that Iya Rasheedi refused to
be cajoled or coaxed into going to Mirabel Centre. Some of her relatives, said
the investigators should give them time to get one five kids who were all
married and live in different in areas of Lagos, come and speak to her.
“Once she sees any of them. She would follow them to
the hospital,” said one of her relatives.
If the test is not carried out, Peter will go
scot-free.
Denying vehemently that he didn’t penetrate, Peter
said blame his action on being drunk and on a supposed curse that had been
following him from his village.
Narrating his story, the suspect said he was drunk
and was walking along the street when he saw the mad woman. She was stark
naked. He said that he felt his manhood stiffened to life and had quickly
remove his trouser.
As he pounced on her, she started screaming and
struggling. Some local vigilante men heard her screams and rushed to the scene.
They rescued her from Peter. Witnesses said Peter penetrated the woman, but he
had consistently denied it.
He however said: “If not for the security men, maybe
I would have had sex with her, notwithstanding that she was screaming and
struggling. I don’t know what came over me. Please forgive me! I had a lot of
things on my mind. My problems are bigger than me. I have nobody to help me.”
When police grabbed him, packets of Indian hemp were
recovered from his pocket.
He said: “My spirit is willing to serve God, but my
flesh is always deceiving me. I saw the woman naked at Oke-Odo Pipeline. I was
even planning to go and sleep at Supa when I saw her. I removed my trouser and
tried to force her to have sex with me. She started shouting.”
Asked the sort of curse following him, Peter said
that whenever he succeeds and makes
money, it would disappear. He also said that since his parents died, nobody
wants to take care of him, because, “anybody that takes care of me, will
suddenly dies! I’ve been told to carry out sacrifice and libation on my
grandfather and father’s grave.”
An angry relative of Iya Rasheedi said: “The woman
has five grown kids. She has been mad for over 27 years. The madness used to
come and go. Once it goes, she would cover her body and once it comes upon her,
she leaves home and start wandering. This her condition was what killed her
elder brother. He was going everywhere,
seeking solution for her problem until he died. Her husband disappeared and
abandoned her after she went mad.”
Investigators said that Peter is looking at life
imprisonment if found guilty, since a mentally unstable woman cannot give
consent for sexual intercourse.
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