By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN—Police in Benin have arrested two of the three persons
alleged to have raped a 6-year-old girl at a primary school in the city. Police
at Aideyan disclosed that they were on the trail of one of the suspects, while
the two arrested suspects were currently in detention.
The incident occurred last week and
the family of the victim appealed to the police and the state government to
arrest the suspects after they fled their homes.
Mother of the victim, who identified
herself as Magdalene, told Vanguard at the Aideyan Police Station that
the daughter complained of severe pains in her private part, adding that it was
on interrogation that it was discovered that some persons had raped her.
She said: “I want to thank the
police for arresting the suspects. Though one is still on the run, I have
confidence in the police. “What they did to my daughter, a six-year-old child,
is wicked and evil. I want justice to be done; they should be punished
accordingly.”
Edo State Coordinator of Child Protection
Network, Jennifer Ero, described child defilement as man’s inhumanity to man
and called on the police and concern authorities to ensure the victim got
justice.
She said: “Three of them connived
and forcefully raped and defiled a child of six years old. Right now, they have
arrested two of them and they are at Aideyan police station while the third
person absconded.
The worst of it all is that the
woman that is affected with her daughter are being intimidated by the
authorities of the school where the crime took place. “Because she owns a shop
there, they are threatening to eject her because she went to the public with
what happened.”
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