A 28-year-old father, Adeyemi Babatunde, has allegedly had an unlawful carnal knowledge of his five-year-old biological daughter (name withheld).
The suspected father was arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on Monday.
He was said to have had an unlawful carnal knowledge of his innocent young daughter while the mother was not at home.
When arrested, he admitted to the police that he truly committed the heinous act, but that he did not know what came over him when he raping his daughter.
These were contained in a press release, AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.7/223/25/05/2023, by the state police image-maker, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
Babatunde’s arrest followed a complaint lodged at the Ijebu-Mushin Police Divisional Headquarters by the mother of the victim.
The mother had reported that she noticed her daughter has been complaining of pain whenever she wanted to urinate and whenever she touched her private part while bathing for her.
Having noticed this, she pressurized the little girl to tell her what happened to her private part.
It was then the victim informed her that her father laid her on the bed and inserted her manhood into her private part when the mother was not at home.
“Upon the report, the DPO Ijebu-Mushin Division, CSP Simire Hillary, quickly detailed his detectives to go after the father of the victim and he was eventually arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the crime but claimed not to know what came over him as at that time,” Oyeyemi added.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olanrewaju Oladimeji, has ordered that the rapist father be transferred to Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour section of the State Criminal Investigation Department.
The order, as Oyeyemi further informed, is to allow for further investigation and prosecution of the father of the young victim.
