The child rape cases, involving mostly girl victims aged 8 to 13, reveal the various methods employed by suspected abusers to target them.
Just starting though, 2025 has shown early signs of a year to be noted for worrying incidence of rape, with minors emerging as targets of perpetrators.
The cases, involving mostly girl victims aged 8 to 13, reveal the various methods employed by suspected abusers to target them. Goodness, the mother of the teenager, whose full name was withheld to avoid stigmatisation, recounted the incident to NAN. The distraught mother reported that after the two women had left the apartment, the man attacked her daughter and allegedly raped her multiple times, threatening her to remain silent.
The official, who said the other suspects were arrested for vandalism and theft, warned perpetrators to desist from vandalism and other crimes or face consequences.A chief magistrate’s court in Ado Ekiti remanded a 38-year-old man, Olasunkanmi Francis, in the Ado Ekiti Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old minor.
The Edo State Police Command detained three men for allegedly gang-raping a 12-year-old girl in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state. On 13 January, police in Lagos State charged 41-year-old Mr Onyegbule at a chief magistrate’s court in Badagry. The prosecutor, Bukola Okeowo, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on 15 August 2023 alongside others at large in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State.According to the prosecutor, the defendant kept watch, while Mr Immana raped the woman.
The prosecutor, Aminu Isaac, an assistant superintendent of police, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at 28, Tomatee Hotel Street, Ajegunle in the Ita-Oluwo area of Ikorodu, about 11 a.m. on 17 July 2024. The prosecutor, Ayodele Adeosun, a police inspector, told the court that the defendant committed the offences in July 2024 at No. 18, Oba Beyioku Street, beside Winners’ Chapel, Badagry, Lagos.
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja remanded a man, Chidi Gabriel, at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. A chief magistrate’s court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has scheduled 27 January for a hearing regarding the case of a 27-year-old man, Ayeni Gbenga, accused of defiling his wife’s 14-year-old sister.
The prosecution led by Adetola Johnson had accused the convict of committing the offence on 14 July 2023 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State. “He ordered me to lie down on the bed and then had sexual intercourse with me saying I should go home and bring N16,000 to complete the sacrifice,” she said. “He had earlier warned me not to tell anyone about him otherwise I would die but I told my mother.”
The Benue State Police Command also said on 30 December that of 270 persons arrested for various crimes in the state from April to December, 47 of them were rape suspects.
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