A 12 year old sexually abused house
help, fleeing home with his master’s two sons and intercepted in Mile 2 area of
Lagos by officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State
Police Command, has disclosed that her
master, 36, raped her five times in less
than seven month she stayed in his house.
The girl, whose name was given as
Benita, a primary school leaver from Imo State, was intercepted at about 10:00
p.m. on Thursday at Mile 2, after alighting from a commercial bus from Olodi
Apapa trying to board another bus to Maza Maza.
The Rapid Response Squad officers on
sighting her with two children, age between 6 and 4 years invited her for
questioning.
The girl disclosed to the officers
that she was heading to Maza Maza to board a night bus to Imo State. Puzzled,
the officers dug deeper. It was at this point she disclosed to the officers
that her Uncle who brought her to Lagos to continue her education, while she
assists his wife domestically had carnal knowledge of her five times.
The suspect, Chigozie Osuocha, of 83, Muibi Street, Olodi – Apapa, was lured to RRS Headquarter in Alausa, Ikeja through his
telephone number provided by his 6 - year old boy.
Benita stated that any time her
Uncle, Chidozie, want to lay with her, he would come home early, lock his three
children out of his one room self-contained apartment and sleep with her.
She added that although she was not
comfortable with living in his house, stressing that all the things his Uncle
promised her parents before living the village and those that he promised her
before sleeping with her are yet to be fulfilled.
She further revealed that she had to
tell his Uncle’s 6 year old son who asked her what his father did to her each
time he locked his three children out of the apartment.
‘I confessed to the boy what was
happening. The boy told his mother. His wife confronted me and I confirmed all
that her husband had done to me. She threatened to pack out. But they resolved
it after he promised it wont happened again.
I have been staying with his three
children at home while they go about their businesses. He has refused to enrol
me in school since July, 2017’, she explained.
She added, ‘I equally reported all
that Uncle did to me to his brother in Lagos. His brother had informed their
father in the village about it’.
‘I took his two sons with me while I
left the last child at home. They saw me packing my things out of the house,
the children asked me where I was going and I told them I was returning to the
village. They started crying they were going to follow me. I took them along
with me after stealing the N60,000 he said I should give his wife’, she said.
‘We got down in Mile 2. I didn’t
know those police officers were monitoring me. One of them crossed the express
and asked me some questions about the children with me. At a point, I told him
I was running away to the village because my Uncle was sleeping with me’, she
stated.
When confronted with the allegation
given by Benita, the suspect confessed that he was lured by the devil adding
that he had slept with her only five times.
He explained that he sought the
girl’s parent permission in the village to bring her to Lagos to continue her
education while also assisting his wife with domestic chores.
He stated further that ‘I brought
her to Lagos in July 2017. I started sleeping with her in December, 2017, I
slept with her three times in December.
My wife got to know of my sleeping
with her and she threatened to move out of the house with my three children. I
begged her and we resolved the issue.
I came home yesterday and I gave her
N60,000 to help me give my wife. It was this money she carried and she wanted
to travel with to the village with along with my two boys’, he stated.
Commenting on the development,
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti confirmed the incident stressing
that the girl had beenv transferred immediately to the Family Support
Unit of the Command.
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