The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old farmer, identified as Sunday Ejeh, for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl in Ugbogi community in Ighobazuwa, Ovia North West LGA of the state.
The suspect was said to have lured the victim to his room, had sexual intercourse with her and given her N600 after the act.
Confirming the arrest in a statement, the command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said: “An investigation carried out by the Gender Unit of the command’s Criminal Investigation Department revealed that the suspect has a criminal tendency of assembling young girls between two and nine years, and having sexual intercourse with them.
The suspect, at the end of the crime, would give his victims N600 to take home.”
