Ebonyi state police command has arrested a middle aged man for alleged rape of nine children aged between six and ten.
George Okafor, a police public relations officer, confirmed the arrested and said the matter was under investigation.
The suspect, a father of three, allegedly carried out the act at Ezza South local government area of the state. He and the victims live in the same compound.
The officer said the matter would be charged to court after the conclusion of investigations.
“We promise the public that the matter would be pursued to its conclusion. The police did not compromise on the matter as being alleged in some quarters,” Okafor said.
“The parents of the victims have, however, failed to bring them for proper medical investigation; we expect them to have done that for long. The information we received was that only seven of the children were allegedly defiled but we would vigorously pursue the investigations,” he said.
The chairman of the family law centre in Abakaliki, Elizabeth Nwali, claimed that the centre petitioned the state Criminal Investigation Department over the matter.
One of the victims reportedly stated that the suspect raped her five times and usually carried out the act in secluded areas, including inside a car.
“When I am deep asleep most times, he will carry me to a corner of house and insert something from his body inside me after removing my clothes and his own,” the victim said.
Some parents of the victims claimed they became aware of the act when their kids started complaining about severe pain in their private parts. They also suspect that the rapist uses the contents of the handkerchief used in cleaning their bodies for ritual purposes because their children have not being themselves since the incidents occurred.
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