SHOCKER: Fake Journalist Rapes 10-Year-Old Girl Multiple Times
The police said the victim who hawks fufu had allegedly been raped by the suspect in his apartment in Igbeba, Ijebu Ode on more than four occasions before he was finally arrested following a complaint by her mother.
The victim’s mother was said to have been alerted by her neighbours .
During interrogation by the Divisional Police Officer, Igbeba, CSP Halilu Muahawiya, the suspect claimed to be a journalist, but was later discovered to have been impersonating.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the victim had been taken to the hospital for medical examination, adding that a case of defilement had been established against the suspect.
In a related development, policemen at the Onipanu Police Division in the Ota area of the state on Wednesday engaged some suspected robbers in a shoot-out, killing one of them while the others escaped with gunshot injuries.
The robbers were said to have trailed the victim from a bank where he withdrew N100,000 and robbed him at gun point.
Adejobi said a Browning pistol and N65,000 were recovered from the gang