65-year-old man rapes two-year-old girl

A 65-year-old man, Emeka Asibirionwu, has been arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl at Oriendu, near Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

The Abia Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, who addressed newsmen on Monday in Umuahia said the suspect was arrested on September 28.

Oyebade said that Asibirionwu was “arrested when the victim’s mother raised the alarm on sighting her daughter crying, while blood and fluid were gushing out from her private part.”

He said the victim’s mother reportedly kept the minor in the custody of the suspect, who was her neighbour, when the incident happened.

The suspect, however, denied the allegation in an interview with newsmen.

He said that he was in his house around 10 p.m. when the victim’s mother accosted him, screaming and accusing him of having defiled her daughter.

He said that he declined the demand that he should provide the money for the victim’s medical treatment because he knew he was innocent of the allegation. (NAN)

Five year-old girl draws out how she was raped by priest

A mother and father in Brazil have discovered heart-breaking sketches drawn by their 5-year-old girl showing how she was allegedly sexually abused by a priest.

DailymailUK reports that the parents had taken her to a child psychologist after she became withdrawn and refused to attend any more of her English classes taken by 54-year-old Father Joao da Silva. It was the psychologist that suspected sexual abuse and urged her parents to search their child’s room for any signs.

The girl’s parents found the sketches after their daughter suddenly refused to attend any more of da Silva’s English classes.

To their utmost shock, they found six heartbreaking drawings by their daughter detailing the sexual abuse, hidden in one of her books. One drawing shows a man apparently looming over a child who has a look of abject terror on her face. Another harrowing image apparently shows a girl lying on a bed with a man forcing himself between her legs. Underneath him the picture appears to show the girl screaming in either fear or agony.

Father Joao da Silva is said to have admitted the attack after the child’s furious father confronted him in the city of Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais in Brazil. When the father confronted the priest in a phone call, he told police, the cleric confessed to him.

 

 

A mother and father in Brazil discovered heart-breaking sketches drawn by their five-year-old girl showing how she was allegedly sexually abused by a priest.

Karine Maia, from the Delegation for Stopping Crimes Against Women pressure group, told local media: ‘We found six drawings among the child’s belongings.’

Police say the priest is in custody being interviewed over child abuse allegations.

Police Arraign Businessman For Raping Minor

A 40-year-old businessman, Cosmos Ajibo, who allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl, was on Monday charged before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano.
The prosecutor, Insp. Junaidu Aminu, told the court that one Barira Isyaku reported the case to Takai Police Division on Jan. 19.
Aminu said that the accused committed the offence on Jan. 19, at about 5.00p.m in Unguwar Tsamiya Quarters, Takai Local Government.
He said that the accused had dragged the girl to his room when she went to buy biscuit from his shop and “forcefully had unlawful sexual intercourse with the victim, which caused her harm.”

The offence is punishable under Section 283 of the Penal Code.
Ajibo, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape, and his counsel, Mr Casmir Agbueze, applied to the court for bail.
Senior Magistrate Kabiru Abubakar, granted the accused bail in the sum of N300, 000 with one surety in like sum.
He said both the accused and surety shall deposit two recent passport photographs with the court.
The case was adjourned to Oct. 20, for mention.

(NAN)

Hoodlums force 23-year-old girl to take India hemp before raping her

A 23-year-old girl (name withheld) has experienced one of the worst sexual attacks in Lagos in recent times.

The incident took place around 10pm on Sunday, August 28 at 106, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, around Pako Bus Stop.

The victim's aunty, a trader in the area, said the young woman had come to her stall around 9pm that day to collect some money.

“I told her to wait so we could pack up together later in the evening. She did. But around 9.30pm when I was still not ready, she said she would go home. She had been sick, so, I thought it was better. Some minutes after 10pm, I packed up and left,” the woman said.

But to her surprise when she got home, she was told Judith had not been seen since she left for the shop.

The family quickly mounted a search for her in the neighbourhood.

Her two brothers went in search of her on streets in the area and they did find her.

One of her brothers who spoke with our correspondent, explained that when he found the victim, he could not believe his eyes.

“Her slippers were all torn, the dress she was wearing was heavy with blood. She was unsteady on her feet. She could hardly stand up,” he said.

A picture of Judith taken soon after she was found showed the ivory-coloured skirt she was wearing blotted with large patches of blood behind and in front.

His brother told our correspondent that when he became frantic and started asking what happened to her, she could hardly talk.

“She said some men raped her. Two men now came out of the front of the house where I found her. One asked me what I was shouting about. He said, ‘Because she was raped, is that why you will not let people ‘hear word’? Is she the first person that will be raped here?’ After all, I gave her Igbo (hemp) and she took it.’

“I was shocked. I could not believe that he had the confidence to tell me he was even the one who gave her Indian hemp. My sister said they forced her to take the Indian hemp and two of them raped her on a chair in front of a shop.”

The victim told her family that the men grabbed her as she crossed the expressway on her way home.

She said when they covered her mouth and dragged her to house number 106, which faces the expressway, they took her inside and forced her to take Indian hemp three times before they raped her.

The two men who allegedly raped her were later identified as Wasiu and Monaco, the names they are popularly known by on the street, while the man who boasted of being the one who gave her the Indian hemp was identified as Olanrewaju Osinubi.

Wasiu and Monaco are currently on the run.

The victim's brother explained that while he argued with the two men, who initially came out, other men came out of the house and joined them, threatening that if he did not leave with his sister, he would be beaten up.

He said, “While we were arguing there, I luckily saw a patrol van of policemen from the Dopemu Police Division passing by and I quickly approached them and explained how my sister was raped.

“The policemen came down from their vehicle and because the crowd of boys in front of the house were threatening, one of the policemen cocked his gun and they all fled.

“But, I immediately grabbed the one who said he gave her Indian hemp to smoke (Osinubi) before he could escape. The police took him and we all went to the station.”

While at the station, it was learnt that the victim continued to bleed heavily as everywhere she sat was soaked with blood.

The police asked the family to take her to the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre for treatment that night.

But by the time they got there around 12.30am, the centre was close.

But officials at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, where the centre is located, referred them to the Ifako General Hospital, where sexual assault cases are also treated.

After the initial treatment there, Judith was again referred to the Mirabel Centre the following day where she was eventually given comprehensive treatment.

It is unclear whether the centre has sent the report of tests conducted on the victim back to the police as is usually the practice.

However, the victim’s family alleged that they became like bystanders as soon as her case got to the police station.

Her brother told our correspondent, “Before we knew what was happening, a man had come and said he was the lawyer of the one that was arrested (Osinubi). I was shocked when the suspect and his lawyer demanded that the case be transferred to the Isokoko Police Division, Agege, instead. We who were the complainant had no say in the matter.”

It was learnt that the case was eventually transferred to Isokoko where two policewomen were detached to follow the victim’s family home.

Again, the family said they were shocked when they got home and the policewomen told The victim to take them to where the incident occurred.

“She was sleeping when they came. She was still in a terrible state. The police brought the suspect to our home and told us to wake her up so that she could take them to where it happened. It was so ridiculous that they could make her go through that at that point. I was angry but we eventually agreed,” the victim’s brother said.

the victim’s aunty, who followed them to the scene of the attack, said they asked the victim to point to where it happened and she did.

“She showed them the place and even the chair on which she was raped. It was very wet as they had just washed off all the blood,” the woman said.

However, the family said they were surprised when the police charged Osinubi to court on Friday, September 2, 2016 for simply obstructing police work.

According to them, the police have not shown any sympathy for the victim in handling the case and they fear she might never get any justice.

It is not clear what the police are doing currently to track down the two suspects on the run as the Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, did not pick calls to her line.

However, an activist, Mrs. Esther Ogwu of the Esther Child Rights Foundation, whom the family has approached for help on the matter, said has notified the Sexual Assault department of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice about the case.

“We expect that an urgent step would now be taken on this matter.  This is not a case that  the police should even think of sweeping under the carpet.

“This case is not just about her, it is about other young women and girls who are in danger as long as those men are still on the loose. But I do not think the police have realised how terrible it must be for the victim that she may not get justice,” she said.

 
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Man Told Court he was Involved in Rape Because his Wife Starved him of Sex

A middle-aged father, Ojo Adewole, on Wednesday told an Ikole Customary Court in Ekiti that he was involved in rape because his wife starved him of sex.

Adewole, who made this known when he testified in a divorce petition by his wife, Omotayo,35, admitted being involved in a rape case but blamed it on the wife.

He said, “Your honour, my wife had always starved me of sex. Instead of taking care of me and the house, she went about partying and making friends.

“My wife is simply wayward and the family had always supported her deeds.

“Your honour, I may not have the moral justification to ask for the preservation of the marriage, but I am praying the court to reduce my monthly financial obligation to my children to N5,000.”

“My prayer for the slashing of the upkeep money hinges on the fact that I have just been released from detention and I do not have any tangible source of livelihood at the moment.’’

Omotayo had told the court that Adewole had been “sexually unruly’’, adding that he had gambled out their collective property and money.

She said, “Your honour, my husband is so addicted to gambling to the extent of using my three cell phones, cooking stove and other house utensils to gamble.

“His habitual drunkenness made him to beat me so often.

“He is not also responsible for the upkeep of our five children as he evades paying their school fees. Your honour, I am tired of the marriage and I want it dissolved forthwith.”

She further said, “The father of my children does not have respect for her family members even though all of us stood by him when he was involved in a rape case.’’

The mother of five had sought for the custody of all the children and prayed the court to compel the respondent to assign some amount monthly for their upkeep.

In her Judgment, the President of the court, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, dissolve the 15-years-old marriage between Omotayo and Adewole for promiscuity and gambling lifestyle.

Ojo held that the petitioner’s request had merit and “in the light of the evidence before the court it is clear that the respondent’s lifestyle had put off the feelings the petitioner initially had for him.

“It is appropriate in the circumstance for parties to be allowed to go their separate ways.

“I, therefore, order that the custody of the children from the union would remain with the petitioner,’’ the president held.

Ojo said: “the respondent is ordered to give his ex-wife the sum of N10, 000 monthly for the upkeep of the children on monthly basis.’’

(NAN)

In Sydney, two 12-year-old boys charged with raping a six year old girl

According to Two 12-year-old boys have been accused of raping a six-year-old girl at a primary school in Sydney, Australia.

The schoolboys who have been charged following the incident in August and the girl were said to attend the same school.

Although, the boys are on bail currently, they have been suspended from school.

Fairfax Media reports that the allegations were reported by the six-year-old child herself.

According to police, the two boys were present at the two occasions of the sexual act, however, only one had sex with her in the second incident.

The boy that had the two encounters was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10 and will be appearing in court in court on September 22.

The other boy who only had one encounter with the girl will be facing two counts of aggravated sexual assault and sexual intercourse with a child under 10.

11-year-old boy convicted for raping sister

A minor, believed to be a 12-year-old boy who is reported to be Britain’s youngest ever rapist was convicted after he admitted to raping his younger sister twice when he was just 11-year-old.

The small boy carried out the sex attacks on his nine-year-old sister on two separate occasions while at their home in Plymouth, a court heard.

The boy, now 12, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, admitted to two counts of rape at an earlier hearing.

The attacks took place on February 26 and March 8 this year and he ejaculated during one of the attacks.

Bodmin Magistrates’ Court heard how ‘images’ had been found on his phone but no further details were given.

District Judge Diane Baker told him: ‘I know a lot about what has happened in your life and your mum’s life in the past and the difficulties you faced and the confusion you face now about how you wish to lead your life.

‘But what you did was so serious and so damaging to your little sister.

‘She was nine-years-old – she does not understand about those things and you hurt her so seriously that that will last with her for the whole of her life.

‘If you were older, I’m telling you now you would be serving a sentence of detention – that’s like prison. But you were only 11.’

She added that the ejaculation was an ‘aggravating factor’.

The youngster was sentenced to a 12-month intensive referral order, which means he will work with experts to improve his behaviour and put on the sex offenders’ register for two and a half years.

He was supported in court by his mother and foster mother.

Judge Baker also said she wanted social services to ensure the boy had access to ‘male influences’ in his life.

Defending the boy, Jodie Leonard, said: ‘He is due to start at school again – I asked him how he is getting on. He is working really hard.’

Britain’s previous youngest convicted rapist was a boy from Bolton, who attacked two girls a couple of months before he turned 12 in 2012.

Two rape 27-year-old man in park

Police are hunting two men for raping a 27-year-old man in a park.

According o Metro UK, the man was attacked as he walked through Goffs Park in Crawley, Sussex, on Friday morning by the pair.

Police said that he was found at around 12.20pm by a passer by who called an ambulance and it is believed he knows his alleged attackers.

He said he had been pushed against a wall then forced to the floor where he was raped by the two men some time between 9.35am and 11.40am.

DS Lex Witek said, “The victim wasn’t physically hurt but was in a distressed state. We believe this was not a stranger attack but carried out by people known to him.”

Fake soldiers abduct, rape 15-year-old in Lagos

 

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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspects who posed as soldiers and abducted a 15-year-old girl in the Oworonshoki area of the state.

Our correspondent learnt that the suspects – Damilola Balogun and Joseph Agbo – allegedly raped the teenager overnight and left her by the roadside.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred last Friday on Akerele Street around 10pm.

It was learnt that the victim, Funke (pseudonym) was sent on an errand by her parents when the two men waylaid her with a motorcycle.

The suspects, who put on a military camouflage, ordered her to climb their motorcycle and rode away to a hideout around Murtala bus stop in the Bariga area.

Our correspondent gathered that 20-year-old Balogun and Agbo, 26, allegedly raped the teenager till daybreak.

It was learnt that the matter was reported at the Oworonshoki Police Division, after which police operatives trailed and arrested the duo.

A police source said, “The victim came to report the matter at the station. She was on an errand along Akerele Street in Oworonshoki when the men, who wore army camouflage, accosted her.

“Before she could cry for help, they had forcefully whisked her away on a motorcycle to Muritala bus stop where she was raped till daybreak. They threatened to kill her if she shouted. They later released her in the early hours of the second day.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said four Automated Teller Machine cards and 17 identity cards were recovered from the suspects.

She said, “The police recovered items which included military camouflage, two berets, two mobile phones, four ATM cards from different banks, and 17 ID cards bearing different names. After interrogation, it was discovered that the suspects were impersonators.

“They are also suspected to be hoodlums terrorising the area. The suspects will be transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for further investigation and prosecution.”

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Katsina Records 30 Rape Cases Monthly – CP

No fewer than 30 girls are raped by men old enough to be their fathers in Katsina State monthly in the recent past, the Commissioner of Police in Katsina, Abdullahi Usman has disclosed.
Briefing newsmen yesterday in the state police command headquarters, Usman lamented that most of the victims were under aged girls, particularly in rural communities.
He frowned that the police were having tough time arresting the menace due to the reluctance of parents and relatives of most victims to cooperate with detectives in their investigations.

The CP therefore cautioned parents to monitor the movement of their young girls as the police perfect measures to arrest the trend.
He also disclosed that the command in synergy with other security agencies recovered 20 Dane guns, three AK 47 rifles, five pistols, 85 assorted live ammunition and 49 expended shells among other dangerous weapons last month from suspected criminals.
On cattle rusting, Usman revealed that no fewer than 2, 151 animals were recovered from suspected rustlers in nine local government areas that are most vulnerable to cattle rustling.
Meanwhile, the CP had inaugurated an eminent persons’ forum as part of community policing strategy to help in mitigating security challenges in the state.
The forum comprising retired civil servants, religious leaders, civil society groups, traditional and community leaders would among others assist the police in mediation and social control during security challenges in any part of the state.

I Slept with my Daughter 4 times, I can’t be responsible for her Pregnancy

43-year-old Gafar Hamza , a night guard, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in June when a neighbour (names withheld) revealed to the police that he has been sleeping with his daughter.

It was learnt that the father of two separated from his wife about 15 years ago when his second child, a male, was barely a year old.

Hamza’s children went to live with their paternal grandparents in Offa, Kwara State, years after their parents got separated. But Hamza’s neighbour reportedly went to Offa to plead with his mother to release the children to their father so that he could have someone to take care of house chores for him.

According to a source, who craved anonymity, the children’s grandmother was reluctant in releasing them, owing to what she perceived as irresponsibility on her son’s part, but agreed to the request after five days and assurance by the neighbour that the children would be staying with his family.

This arrangement was said to have held for a short period before the suspect complained that his neighbour’s wife was over-pampering his children in a way that would not help them in being skilled in performing house chores.

This led to the girl going to her father’s house every morning to help him out, but in the process, he started having sex with her. It was the frequent sex that eventually led to the girl being pregnant.

It was further gathered that the suspect’s 16-year-old son allegedly caught his father in sex act with his sister twice and, angry at what he perceived as intrusion, the man became hostile to the teenager.

The hostility was so much and obvious that the neighbour was said to have noticed it. When he asked the boy what went wrong between him and his father, he opened up on what he saw his father doing to his sister.

The revelation reportedly made the neighbour’s wife to observe Barakat, only to notice that she had the symptoms of a pregnant lady. The pregnancy was later confirmed.

During interrogation at the police station, a police source disclosed that the lady disclosed that her father was doing ‘it’ with her before she left with her brother for their grandparents’ place in Offa, and had continued on her return.

She further revealed that her father always demanded to know when she was menstruating and strictly warned her against having a boyfriend.

As of July, the pregnancy was three months old, according to medical tests carried out.

In an interview with Hamza who lives at Aroro Makinde in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, though an indigene of Offa, Kwara State, he admitted sleeping with his daughter but said he was not sure Barakat did not have a boyfriend who was doing the same thing he was doing to her.

“It is true that I slept with my daughter, but I started with her when she returned to my house in February this year. I think it was diabolic attack from my enemies who do not want my progress in film making that made me do the abominable. I believe it was the devil at work.

“The mother of the children left me about 15 years ago and had remarried. I did not stop her from taking her children with her. I also went into several relationships which failed because the women always left me after taking money from me,” he said.

The suspect confessed to have had sex with his daughter four times, saying that he did not know when he penetrated her as he came to himself after the action.

“She came in to greet me one morning and the next thing was that I saw her getting up beside me,” he further said.

But the man said he was not sure that he is the owner of his daughter’s pregnancy, though he confessed to have ejaculated into her during sex sessions. The reason he gave for his doubt was that he believed that she would have a boyfriend.

When it was pointed it out to him that he was alleged to have warned his daughter against having a relationship with the opposite sex, and that he also monitored her menstrual cycle, Hamza said he became aware of her monthly cycle when the girl returned to her and was having her periods twice in a month.

“Some women noticed that she was getting lean and she told me what she was going through so I took care of her with herbs and her cycle became normal again. After that, she would tell me ‘Daddy, I am menstruating.’ I didn’t tell her not to have boyfriends; I only asked her to be careful in choosing a lover.”

He said he got to know of her pregnant state through his neighbour. When asked whether he would prefer his daughter’s pregnancy to be aborted or left to be delivered, he said “anyone who aborts is a murderer. She should deliver the pregnancy so that people would know that I am not likely to be the father of the baby. And if I happen to be the father, proper punishment should be meted out to me.”

When further probed to know if he saw any other man with his daughter, the suspect simply responded: “One cannot monitor a woman strictly.” He denied being the one who deflowered his daughter, but confessed that his son caught him in sexual act with his daughter twice.

“The first time, I was on top of her and the door was not locked. My son came in and saw us. He greeted me and asked for money for his breakfast. My daughter and I were Unclad. I had already withdrawn from my daughter when he caught us the second time,” he stated.

He denied developing hatred for the boy afterwards, saying he only disciplined him because he was not good academically.

He said his 16-year-old son is still in primary 4, adding that his inability to adequately cater for his children was a result of the death of his two sisters who were helping him in that aspect.

He described his daughter as a dull girl whom he started training after she returned to him. He also confessed to being on drugs, saying “I have been taking marijuana and alcohol for about 15 years. I was taking hemp to keep awake because of my job and the alcoholic drink to keep pneumonia away because of exposure to cold weather in the night.”

Crime Reports learnt that the case which was initially reported at Ojoo police station was transferred to the State Criminal investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation.

On enquiry, it was gathered that the suspect was charged in Court 1 in July and was remanded in police custody by the magistrate. The case has been adjourned till August 29.