Horror! Police Inspector Defiles 15-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint in Akwa Ibom

A 15-year-old girl in Akwa Ibom, simply identified as Udo, has accused a police inspector of raping her at gunpoint, Punch reports.

According to the report, the police inspector, who is attached to Mkpat Enin Police Division in the Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, allegedly raped the teenage girl when she was returning from church last week Thursday.

The Secondary School one pupil of Community Secondary School, Iyadiong, Mkpat Enin, said yesterday that a team of policemen accosted her on her way home. The inspector, she said, raised his gun, cocked it and pointed it at her with the threat of shooting if she resisted.

He then led her away from other members of the police team to a dark area along the road, she said.

The policeman, according to her, fondled her breasts and said, “Small you, possess this type of breasts!” before ordering her to undress with his gun pointed at her.

She said, “After he had forced me to remove my clothes, he ordered me to lie down and open my legs and raped me. As he was raping me, he warned me not to cry and threatened to shoot me if I opened my mouth.

“Blood was oozing from my private parts, but the policemen dragged me into the vehicle and drove to the station, where he detained me from Thursday till Saturday. It was my uncle, Dr. Ime Stephen, that came from Abuja and bailed me with N10,000.”

Udo further told Punch reporters that she and her father were dependent on her uncle, because her mother had left her father when she was a toddler, while her father had been paralysed since the day he fell from a palm tree.

While expressing his shock at the rape, her uncle said that the culprit was also a police prosecutor and that he was surprised when the girl pointed at the inspector as the one who committed the crime from among the policemen who were on duty then.

He said, “We call for his dismissal from the force so that he can be prosecuted accordingly.”

Speaking on the incident, the state Police Commissioner, Murtala Mani, said the police had started investigating the case and all the policemen that were on patrol from the station at the time were in detention at the police headquarters in the state.

He said, “We have already started investigation into the matter. We have detained all the policemen involved. I interviewed the victims close to three hours yesterday (Monday). If the culprits are found wanting, they would be dismissed and prosecuted.”

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