The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Ebonyi State arrested a man for allegedly raping a 7-year-old girl.
21-year-old Chukwuka Agbeze claimed that he raped the little girl because she demanded for it. He says the girl asked him to rape her and he went ahead to do it because he did not want to hurt her feelings.
During interrogation Agbeze said: “It’s true that I had canal knowledge of Ogechi but it was only once and not twice as she claimed. What happened was that she came to me and willingly demanded for sex from me and I did it.”
Agbeze was arrested after Ogechi told her parents that he had been sexually violating her.
Her parents quickly rushed her to the hospital.
It was later revealed that the sexual violation started in 2012.
Ogechi, recounting her ordeal, said Agbeze first accosted and attacked her one evening on her way to the toilet. She said he defiled her and warned her against telling anybody.
Since the first incident Agbeze would always ambush her with an attempt to rape her again but she would always escape him, until last year when he eventually raped her for the second time.
Agbeze denies raping Ogechi twice. He insists it happened just once when she asked for it.
The little girls parents described the action of the suspect as unfortunate, regrettable and condemnable but regretted that the suspect might go scot-free because they are relations.
They said: “We are speechless because the boy involved is our relative. Blowing the case up is like washing our dirty linen in public. So what he should do is to settle the hospital bill of our daughter and quickly too.”
The suspect’s parents were visibly devastated by the act of their son. They stated that the act was incestuous but appealed to the parents of the girl to allow the matter to be resolved amicably by the both families.
