A Keke rider identified as,
Edet Sunday Edem has been arrested for raping 10-year-old girl in Use Offot
area, Akwa Ibom state.
According to Daily post,
Edet dumped the young girl in the Use Offot market area, despite the fact that
she was bleeding badly.
The young girl whose
identity has been withheld, was reportedly rushed to St Luke’s hospital, Anua
by passerbys for medical attention.
One Miriam Daniels who is
reportedly a member of a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Journalists
Alliance against Gender Based Violence, was responsible for rushing the child
to the hospital after spotting her lying down and bleeding in the market
square. Daniels said;
” I was moved by the little
girl’s pitiable state of health, I insisted that I should be taken to the
suspect’s residence. When I arrived at the place, I was confronted with a pool
of blood in the suspect’s apartment and blood stains were noticed in the
premises.
“The suspect’s door was
locked and there was no indication that he was within the neighbourhood.’’
Edet was
finally apprehended in his hometown in Oku Iboku, where he was reportedly
hiding out in the home of his pastor.
The youth leader of Use
Offot, Fabian Ikpe, while speaking during an interview, said that the community
had become concerned about the situation which prompted a manhunt to find the
suspect and being him to justice.
He added that Edet had
asked if he would be allowed to go free if he yielded to them, however he was
taken to the police station.
In his statement at the
sewer a police station, Edet confessed to the crime, disclosing that despite
working as a Keke driver, he was also an elder in his church.
“Yes I slept with her but
when I noticed that she was bleeding, I erased the blood from the floor,’’ he
said.
The police have also
revealed that the suspect will be charged to court upon the conclusion of the
investigation.
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