An 18-year-old Internally Displaced Person, Ibrahim Umar has been arrested for allegedly raping a 9-year-old primary three student in Kafin Hausa local government, Jigawa State.
Umar was arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, following a complaint lodged by the sister of the victim.
Spokesman of the NSCDC Jigawa State Command, CSC. Adamu Shehu, confirmed the arrest.
He said the victim was molested severally by the suspect, who happens to be a family friend and an IDP from Maiduguri, Borno State.
According to the victim’s sister, the girl innocently revealed the ordeal to her friends in school, who later informed her on returning home.
“Upon hearing that I subjected the victim to questioning she told me that the suspect used to take her to an uncompleted building around the vicinity, usually in the evenings around 6 to 7 pm, and forcefully engaged her sexually,” she said.
The NSCDC spokesman stated that the medical report indicates evidence of sexual penetration as the hymen is entirely absent.
He said the suspect had been taken to court.
