84-year-old man identified as Stephen Jack has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl (name withheld) in the Okun Owa area of Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
The state police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abeokuta said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Obalende divisional headquarters.
Oyeyemi said the girl’s father had told the police he discovered that his daughter was bleeding from her private part.
The PPRO stated that the father said when he asked the little girl why she was bleeding, she informed him that the suspect had sex with her.
He said the DPO Obalende division, Murphy Salami, immediately detailed his detectives to the scene, where the “randy old man” was apprehended.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the old man is a known pedophile in the area,” he said.
Oyeyemi said the victim had been taken to the General Hospital Ijebu Ode for medical treatment.
He quoted the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, to have directed the transfer of the suspect to State Criminal Investigation Departments for more investigation and possible prosecution.
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