EBONYI State
Police Command, yesterday, said it arrested a 33-year-old man, Nweke Monday,
for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl in Amuzu Amuda community of Ezza
North Local Government Area.
Just as four other suspects were arraigned before
a Magistrate’s Court for allegedly gang-raping a 13-year-old girl in Umunaga
Agu-Ugwu Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area.
Contacted, the state Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP George Okafor, said the defilement of the
five-year-old was reported to the police by the youth President of the
community, Uchechi Elechi.
He noted that the youth President reported that
Nweke Monday lured the girl (names withheld) to an abandoned Isuzu SUV, where
he defiled her.
According to him, Elechi also reported that the victim was
rushed to a hospital in Ezzamgbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state,
but that the girl’s parents have refused to officially report the matter to the
police. Okafor said: “The youth President decided to bring the matter to the
fore.
Though the parents of the child may be afraid of the stigma, the culprit
will never go unpunished no matter how long he runs.
“We must charge him to
court. We know that God himself will punish him.
I wonder how someone could
ever think of defiling her; it is unheard of and is complete wickedness.”
Meanwhile, the four persons that allegedly defiled a 13-year-old girl, Emmanuel
Okereke, 27; Chukwuebuka Okoro, 22; Christopher Nwaeze, 31 and Obinna Njoku,
25, were arraigned on two count charges. The suspects pleaded not guilty and
were remanded in Abakaliki Federal Prisons.
Also, one Henry Ngwuta has been
arraigned by an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for alleged defilement of a
nine-year-old girl.
The suspect, Ngwuta, in a one-count charge, was said to
have, on May 10, at Onoko village in Ishinkwo, Onicha Local Government Area,
raped the girl (names withheld).
