The Police Command in Agbor, Delta State Division has paraded a 46-year-old male proprietor of a private school in Agbor, for allegedly abusing a four-year-old female pupil of the school.
The incident was confirmed in a statement made available to Vanguard, by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, on Monday, October 23.
According to Edafe, the pupil told her mum that she was defiled by the proprietor of her school.
The statement read, “One Mrs Joy reported that while she was bathing her 4-year-old daughter, she discovered blood stain in her private part. Upon questioning, she said her daughter kept stating that her uncle used school scissors to cut her on her private part.
“Upon receipt of this complaint, the Area Commander Agbor , detailed a team of investigators to proceed to the scene of the alleged crime.
“The suspect who doubles as the owner of the school and also the only male teacher in the school was arrested and taken into custody. Preliminary investigation led to the issuance of a medical report and the initiation of an identification parade exercise where the suspect, when placed amongst random men, was identified by the victim as the person who allegedly defiled her. The medical report affirmed that there was “no hymen visualized” in the victim’s private part.
“Though the Area Command, Agbor had concluded their investigation and charged the case to court, the Commissioner of Police Delta State, CP Wale Abass ,directed the case be withdrawn from the court and immediately transferred to the State Criminal and Investigation Department (SCID) for further meticulously executed investigation.”
Meanwhile, the CP has assured that justice will be served.
