A 30-year-old man identified as Chinonso Ezekiel Nwaebonyi has been arrested for defiling his neighbour’s 7-year-old daughter.
The incident happened in Awka, capital of Anambra State.
Mother of the victim reported the matter to the ministry of women’s affairs when she found out, while bathing her daughter.
The mother (name withheld) said while bathing her daughter one day, she found out that her private region was swollen, and when she enquired, she accused Nwaebonyi.
She said the defilement had been a regular occurrence and always happened when her daughter and her twin brother went to play in the paedophile’s compound.
She added that she took her daughter to a pharmacy where she bought her drugs and also complained to the guardian of Nwaebonyi, before reporting to the ministry’s officials who later arrested him.
The suspect, an indigene of Izzi in Ebonyi State confessed to the crime, but said he did it only once.
He was quoted as confessing that: “I never forced the girl, I only asked her to raise her clothes and lie down on the ground.”
As at the time of filing this report, the suspect had been handed over to the police for prosecution.
David-Chyddy Eleke
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