An alleged rapist identified as Obinna Ekusaba, a 38-year old motorcyclist has been arrested by the police for allegedly luring and sexually molesting a primary six pupil for six months in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State.
The victim’s mother, according to sources sells cigarette and alcoholic drinks in a motor park on the street.
Mr Ekusaba, was in the habit of parking his motorcycle at the park was one of the mother of the victim’s customers.
On a fateful day, she was away, when the suspect beckoned on the 11 year old girl to get a bottle of drink into an uncompleted building in the motor park.
While she took the item to the uncompleted building, Mr Ekusaba lured her with money and raped her.
Sources disclosed that he continuously defiled the girl on several occasions before her mother observed on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. that her daughter’s vagina was enlarged.
She mounted pressure on her daughter before she could confess that Ekusaba had been gaining carnal knowledge of her.
The matter was intimated with the policemen at the Kirirkiri division and the suspect was apprehended.
According to the victim’s statement, she disclosed that the alleged rapist had been luring her with the sum of N1,000 on the first day he lured her.
“Brother Obinna (Ekusaba) used to buy cigarette, water and alcoholic drinks from my mother’s shop.
“Last year, I was in my mother’s shop when Brother Obinna called me to bring a bottle for him inside the building.
“On getting there, he put his hand inside his pocket and brought out N500; he asked me to enter.
“But I told him my daddy used to give me N500.
“He then brought out N1,000.
“As I entered the building, he removed my pants and put his private parts inside my own.
“After he removed it, I demanded the money and he brought it out. As I was about to collect it, he put it back inside his pocket. That was how Brother Obinna started sleeping with me, ” she stated.
Her mother who is 35 years of age lamented that she was bathing her when she noticed that there was a change in her private parts.
She said her fingers could enter her daughter’s genitals freely.
“I became worried because it was not like that before. I questioned her for hours before she confessed that it was a man called Obinna (Ekusaba) that had been raping her.
“She also said he would bring out his private parts and ask her to put it in her mouth. I could not bear it and had to report it to the police,” She said.
Several tests were conducted in the hospital on the victim and it was confirmed that there were constant penetration.
