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11
–year- old victim, whose parent did not want her name to be on print was
fainted and unable to walk on her own when their neighbour , a 40- year -old man allegedly raped her after forcing the victim to assist
him suck his manhood.
Both the
suspect and the victim’s Aunty live in the same compound where the incident
took place at Egbelu area of Port Harcourt in Obio/Akpor Local government area
of Rivers State.
The
Ozuoba Police division in Obio/Akpor Local government is handling the matter
and had arrested the suspect, Mr. Innocent Akppa after the victim’s family reported the matter.
The Rivers State Police Spokesman, Ahmad
Mohammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) confirmed the incident and
assured the victim’s family that the suspect must be charged to court.
When The
Nation visited the victim at the hospital where she is recuperating she
struggled and explained her ordeal in a
pensive mood that the suspect had always fingered her private part since they
packed in into the compound.
She said
the recent attempt which exposed the suspect was not the first time he attempted
to rape her, adding that all efforts to
shout for her Aunty and neigbour to hear her prove abortive because the suspect
tunes his music player high.
She
noted that when the Aunty finally knock on the suspect door after searching for
her in all the neigbours houses it was
them that she ran out of the house with her cloth and pant in her hand which
made the aunty to believe her story.
The
victim said: “ This is not the first
time he has been disturbing me, one day
when my aunty was not around he followed me to our bathroom and removed his
trouser and asked me to start washing his manhood which I did.
“But
this last day, he called me and said I should enter his house that he wants to
send me to assist him buy something. I didn’t know what was in his mind, so I
went to his door knocking, he opened and asked me to enter inside that was how
he dragged me inside and locked the door.
She
continued, “As soon as I entered inside his house, he removed my pant and asked
me to wash his manhood and I did. And later, he said I should start sucking his
manhood but I refused, I told him that I will not do it, before he carried me
to his bed and put his thing inside me and blood came out.”
Mrs. Marry Effiong, the Aunty to the victim said
she didn’t know that why the suspect was always sending her girl for an errand
was because of his evil plan against the little girl.
Mrs. Effiong said: “I didn’t notice what was going on time, that
particular day I went to church and came back late. Then I told my girl to
assist me prepare what we were going to eat
few minutes after I discovered that I can no longer see her so I started
knocking on my neighbour’s doors.
“Later,
it occurred to me that I should knock at the door of Mr. Innocent, and when I
did Mr. Innocent came out and said my girl is inside watching films. Then I
immediately told her to come out and surprisingly she came out naked, that was
how we reported to police.
The
suspect’s brother who simply introduced his name as Mr. Ben said he cannot
argue for his brother’s innocence, stressing that this is not the time to say
he is guilty or not but how they can get
him out of the police cell.
Ben
said friends of the suspect has made so
many effort to beg the family of the victim but the Aunty seem to have being
proving difficult in spite of the N10,000 they contributed for the girl
treatment.
Ben
said: “I am not the blood brother of Mr. Innocent but we came from the same
village in Enugu state, I cannot say he did it or not but I know that
temptation is much these days. But it has happened, we met with the police and
they advised us to go and beg the man as the only option for Innocent release.
“But the
family of the victim is not helping matter, when we met them to plead and to
ask them to withdraw the matter the Aunty started fighting us. We are only begging not by force, we want the
matter to be settled amicably.”
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