Juliana Francis
Detectives from Igbogbo Police Station have arrested one Dayo for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old Down syndrome girl at the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
According to eyewitnesses, Dayo defiled the minor at Orere Abosan Estate, popularly known as Awesu Estate in Igbogbo.
Incidentally, the father of the survivor, is a well-known police officer in the estate.
The survivor narrated that the perpetrator asked her to go into bed and then pulled off her pant. He then lay on her and had sex with her.
The matter has been reported to members of the Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network of Nigeria (ACVPN) and they had vowed to everything within the ambit of the law to get justice for the girl.
One of the advocates said: “The perpetrator came to visit his elder sister and he then lured the girl into the apartment. He claimed the little girl came to beg for food, insisting that he didn’t force the girl to perform the act. People in the community, however, said it couldn’t be true that the girl went to beg him for food. According to them, the girl’s family are well do and have always given her the best of care.”
It was further alleged and believed that Dayo had been monitoring the girl for days before taking advantage of her. The violation of the girl was discovered after her sisters realised she had not been seen for a while and started calling her name.
“The sisters and mother started shouting her name, knowing fully well she would be within the vicinity. The girl ran out to the apartment balcony, where the perpetrator took her into. She started waving to her sisters, covered in bloodstains. The perpetrator then pushed her out of the apartment and locked the door. When neighbours knocked on the door, he refused to open. He then ran through the kitchen exit door, jumped into the next house, broke through their roof and advanced to the third house and escaped. The incident happened in the morning and he ran away in that morning, but when it was night, he sneaked back into the community, but was sighted by a neighbour,” said another advocate.
The neighbour immediately alerted other members of the community and he was caught. He was handed over to policemen from Igbogbo police station.
Trying to bluff his way out of the jam he found himself, Dayo told members of the community, that he has recognised the faces of those that attacked and held him for the arrival of the police, that when he returns from the police station, he would deal with them.
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