45-yr-old man rapes 3-yr-old step daughter

A 45-year-old man identified as Mallam Bawa has been arrested by the police in Niger State after he allegedly raped his three-year-old step daughter.

According to Police Inspector Abdullahi Mayaki, attached to the state Child Rights Protection Agency, the suspect was arrested in Kundu, a village in Rafi Local Government Area of the state after the mother of the girl, Malama Fatima Bawa, reported the matter to the agency.

Mrs. Bawa informed that she caught her husband (who denied the allegation during investigation, claiming that he only intervened whenever his wife beat the girl) sexually abusing her daughter moments after she rebuffed his sexual advances.

“My husband likes sex too much, so I chased him out of the room in the night and locked the door.” She said.

Continuing, she added that; “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.” Mrs. Bawa said.

She also alleged that she saw blood stained and semen on the girl’s body and informed her brother in-laws wife about the incident who advised her to take the girl to the hospital.

When commenting on the matter, Hajiya Mariam Kolo the Director-General of the Child Rights Protection Agency described the act as ‘ungodly’, saying that the state government would no longer condone any form of violence against children and women.

She also said that the suspect would be charge to court in accordance with Section 18 of the Child Rights Law and the that the victim would be treated in the hospital.