Factory Worker Denies Raping 4-Year-Old Girl, Claims, ‘I Only Released On Her Laps’

A 21-year-old factory worker, Emmanuel Umanah, was apprehended by the Police at Amukoko Divisional headquarters yesterday in Lagos for allegedly raping a four year-old-girl, Vanguard reports.

The victim’s grandmother got Umanah, a neighbour, arrested for allegedly luring and raping her granddaughter in his one-room apartment on Opeoluwa Street, Mosafejo-Amukoko area of Ajegunle. She narrated thus,

“After preparing food, I did not see my grandchild whom I was calling to come and eat. I was still searching for her when a little girl about her age told me she was in Umanah’s apartment watching a film.

“I knocked but nobody answered. So, I pushed the door open and behold my grandchild was naked and her body covered up with semen. I raised an alarm immediately and with the help of other neighbours, my daughter was taken to the hospital.”

Medical tests were reportedly conducted in an unnamed hospital and the results confirmed that the victim had been raped as she had bruises and semen in her private part.

Umanah who is a native of Akwa-Ibom State, told police that,

“I live at No 6, Opeoluwa Street, Mosafejo -Amukoko area of Ajegunle. I am 21-years old. I work at a factory located around Mile 2. I live alone because I am not married.

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I was inside my room watching a film when two little girls came into my apartment. Later, one of them left. I did not know she had gone to tell the victim’s grandmother that I was touching her. It was the grandmother of the girl that caught me while calling her to come and eat when they found her inside my room.

I only released on her laps, I didn’t rape her; but the test carried out by the hospital said she had bruises and semen in her virginal. This is the first time I did such and I was caught.”

Police say the case is being investigated by Amukoko Divisional headquarters as the parents of the victim insist that proper investigations must be done and the suspect should be charged to court.