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those who heard about how a 20-year-old boy, Afeez Raimi, defiled a
two-year-old girl (name withheld), have continued to wonder on what the
point of attraction could be in a girl that could not talk yet. But the
suspect has claimed that he did not know what came over him immediately
he saw the girl’s legs wide open when she laid on his bed.
Afeez
was arrested on Sunday, May 4, at Benbo area of Apata, Ibadan, Oyo
State where he lived with his parents, after a 35-year-old man, Mr
Adebimpe Gafari reported at Kuola police station that the boy defiled
his daughter with his finger, so much that the girl bled.
Crime
Reports learnt that the Adebimpes were tenants in Afeez’s father’s
house and the little girl had followed the suspect into his room, as
children are wont to do with adults they are familiar with. It was
during this period that Afeez allegedly took advantage of the girl.
Residents
of the area were reported to have descended on the suspect, stripped
him naked, and beat him until he was rescued by the police who took him
into custody.
Afeez,
who said he was a tailor, narrated how the incident occurred during an
interview with Crime Reports: “The two-year-old girl followed me into my
room as I came in from outside. I sat on the bed and she also sat
beside me. I started ironing my cloth and she slept on the bed, raising
her legs playfully. She was not wearing pants though she had a skirt on.
“I
was aroused by the sight and I put my finger in her private part. I did
not use my penis. She started crying and left my room. When her father
saw her crying, he enquired on what was wrong with her and she said I
was the one who beat her. That was when her father noticed that her
thighs and skirt were blood-stained.
“The
man caught hold of me and started beating me. I was stripped naked and
he was joined by others who also started beating me before I was taken
to the police station.
“My
father is a landlord to the father of the girl and when he learnt of
what I did, he asked them to take me away. Nothing attracted me in the
girl and I cannot really say what led me to such an act. I have never
done such a thing before.”
The
father of the girl, Mr. Adebimpe Gafar, also spoke with Crime Reports:
“In the morning of May 4, I was in the room with my daughter while her
mother who is heavily pregnant was engaged at the backyard. My daughter
told me she wanted to urinate and I opened the door for her to go out.
“About
five minutes after, I heard her crying and carried her. To my shock, I
noticed blood in her private part and her skirt. When I asked her about
what happened to her, she told me it was Afeez who beat her. When I
confronted the boy, he initially denied but later confessed to have
perpetrated the act.”
Surprisingly,
the same Gafar went to police headquarters in Ibadan on Wednesday, May 7
armed with an affidavit, saying that he was no longer interested in
pursuing the case against Afeez.
In
a drama witnessed by Crime Reports, Gafar claimed that his family held a
meeting with the suspect’s family and the matter was amicably resolved.
He was accompanied by one Kazeem Raimi, a brother to the suspect.
Piqued
by the step taken by the victim’s father, the Oyo State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Mohammed Indabawa lamented the attitude of the parents of
rape or defilement victims, which, he said, had always worked against
getting justice. This, according to the police commissioner, had allowed
many suspects to get away with their wrong doings, and in turn, led to
continuous perpetration of same crime.
He
however insisted that the crime was against the state, therefore, it
would be appropriately charged to court after all investigations has
been concluded.
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