The suspect, Okwuome Henry, was said to have called the primary school pupil, whose parents had gone to their respective business places, to his apartment at Abio Frank Street, under the pretence that he wanted to send her on an errand. But on arrival, he forced the girl into his bed and defiled her. He thereafter warned her not to tell anyone.
The matter would have gone unknown but the victim’s mother noticed bloodstains on the girl’s clothes. When she mother asked her how she came about the blood, she explained what Henry did to her.
The mother alerted Idimu Police Station and Henry was arrested. One of the neighbours in the building where the incident took place, said: “At first, no one believed the girl because of the closeness between Henry and her parents. But on closer observation, it was discovered that her private part was still blood stained. We were all shocked because our female children used to go on errands for him.”
Henry was charged to court last Friday, where he pleaded not guilty. The presiding Magistrate, Mrs. J. O. E. Adeyemi, granted him bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties who must show evidence of tax payment for four years
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