By Christopher Oji
Ogun state Police Command has arrested a 28 years old man, Adeyemi Babatunde, for allegedly defiling his five years old biological daughter(name withheld).
The suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at Ijebu Mushin Divisional Headquarters by the mother of the survivor, who reported that her daughter has been complaining of pain whenever she wanted to urinate as well as whenever she was bathing, and she touched her private part.
According to Ogun State Police Publlic Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi,having noticed her daughter’s strange behaviour, 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, DPO Ijebu Mushin division, CSP Simire Hillary, quickly detailed detectives to go after the suspect and he was eventually arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the crime, but claimed not to know what comes over him as at that time”.
Meanwhile, Commissioner of Police, Mr Olanrewaju Oladimeji, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to Anti Human Trafficking and Child Labour Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and prosecution.