‘Sometimes, he would give us N20 after having sex with us’ – Little Girls Allegedly Defiled By 19-Year-Old Boy Spill

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A 19-year-old boy said to be a shoemaker, Sunday Cosmas, has been nabbed for allegedly raping three little girls aged five, eight and ten in the Ikotun area of Lagos. Two of the victims are said to be siblings.

According to Vanguard, it was gathered that the suspect who usually comes to visit his girlfriend, Ibukun, in the area, raped the girls on several occasions and usually made love to his girlfriend in her apartment while the poor little girls looked on.

One of the girls later innocently spilled the beans to her mum by telling her she stopped going to Aunty Ibukun’s house when Sunday was around because he usually sleeps with her. A neigbour soon revealed similar complaints from her daughters, confirming the allegations and the aggrieved parents cried out. The suspect was then arrested and transferred to State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba, for further investigation.

One of the girls, Debora, said,

“I am five years old. Apoh comes to our house always. He would come to the house and ask us to come to the room that he wanted to send us on an errand. Then he would tell us to go inside the room and remove our pants. As always, we will not agree but he would do it with force by making us lie on our backs after which he would remove his boxers and have sex with us.

Whenever we cry, he would tell us to come and eat. He has had sex with me twice. He calls us one after the other.”

The second victim, Aliyat, also revealed,

“I am eight years old. I am in primary one. He would always take us around our school with his friends. Whenever we close, he would come home with us. He does not use the same road with us. He would use the mosque road. At home, he would sit three of us down, calling us one by one to send us message. While inside the house, he would tell us to back him, sometimes he tells us to hold the wall or chair.

Sometimes, he would give us N20. After having sex with us, he told me that I should not tell my mother, if I did, he would kill me. He has slept with me twice.”

The third victim, Ifeoluwa, said,

“I am 10 years old. He started having sex with me since last year. It was my younger sister that told my mother. When it started, it was painful but at a time, the pain disappeared. I want the government to do whatever they deem fit.”

Lamenting the plight of her children, Mrs Afolasade, mum of two of the victims, said her daughters are now suffering from peer alienation.

Sunday has however denied the rape allegation, claiming he usually goes to their compound to visit his girlfriend. He added, “I only made love to my girlfriend, Ibukun, while the kids were inside the room watching film.”

Various tests carried out on the three girls at the Mirabel Centre, Ikeja, however revealed that they were indeed sexually abused.