A 46-year-old male operator of a private school in Agbor has been paraded by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly defiling a four-year-old female learner of the school.
According to a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, the student informed her mother that she had been violated by the school’s proprietor.
According to Edafe:” One Mrs Joy reported that while she was bathing her 4-year-old daughter, she discovered blood stain in her private part. Upon questioning, she said her daughter kept stating that her uncle used school scissors to cut her on her private part.
“Upon receipt of this complaint, the Area Commander Agbor , detailed a team of investigators to proceed to the scene of the alleged crime.
“The suspect who doubles as the owner of the school and also the only male teacher in the school was arrested and taken into custody. Preliminary investigation led to the issuance of a medical report and the initiation of an identification parade exercise where the suspect, when placed amongst random men, was identified by the victim as the person who allegedly defiled her. The medical report affirmed that there was “no hymen visualized” in the victim’s private part.
“Though the Area Command, Agbor had concluded their investigation and charged the case to court, the Commissioner of Police Delta State, CP Wale Abass ,directed the case be withdrawn from the court and immediately transferred to the State Criminal and Investigation Department (SCID) for further meticulously executed investigation.”
The police statement assured that CP Abass was determined to get justice for the family of the victim.