The Niger State Police Command on Wednesday arrested a 45-year-old-man, identified only as Bawa for allegedly raping his three-year-old step daughter.
Bawa was arrested in Kundu, a village in Rafi Local Government Area of the state.
Inspector of Police attached to the State Child Rights Protection Agency, CRPA, Abdullahi Mayaki, said that the mother of the girl, Malama Fatima Bawa, reported the matter to the agency.
Mayaki said that the suspect, however, denied the allegation during investigation, claiming that he only intervened whenever his wife beats the girl.
But Mrs Bawa had told the agency that she caught her husband sexually abusing her daughter after he approached her for sex at night and she turned him down.
She said, “My husband likes sex too much, so I chased him out of the room in the night and locked the door.
“It was after I chased him out that I heard my daughter, who was sleeping in the parlour, crying.
“I quickly ran to her only to see my husband abusing my daughter sexually.
“I am a breast feeding mother and I spend the whole of my day taking care of the children, yet my husband does not allow me to rest.”
Bawa further alleged that she saw blood stains and semen on the girl’s body and informed her brother in-law’s wife about the matter who advised her to take the girl to the hospital.
However the Director-General of the agency, Hajiya Mariam Kolo, said the victim would be treated in the hospital.
Kolo also said that the “suspect would be charged to court in accordance with Section 18 of the Child Rights Law.”
He described the act as “ungodly,” adding that the state Government would no longer condone any form of violence against children and women.
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