An officer of the Rivers State Police Command has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in Khana Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered that the policeman, identified simply as Emmanuel, allegedly defiled the teenager in his office at the Bori Area Command in Khana LGA.
Speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Saturday, January 20, the teenager’s aunty who gave her name as Love, said she sent the girl on an errand last Friday but was surprised that the girl did not return home that day, hence she started looking for her.
Love disclosed that the teenager returned home on Saturday, January 13, adding that when she interrogated her, the girl narrated how the policeman held her the previous day and defiled her in his office.
She said: “When she came back at about 8 a.m. the following day (Saturday), I asked her where she was coming from and where she slept last night.
“She told me that one policeman with two stars at the Area Command held her in his office at Bori Area Command and raped her till daybreak.
“She said the police officer threatened to shoot her if she shouted. So because of that, she kept quiet. So when she came back, I checked her as a mother and saw that somebody had touched her.”
The teenager’s guardian further revealed that she reported the matter to the Bori Police Division, adding that the girl identified the policeman before she was taken to the hospital by the Investigating Police Officer at the Division.
“The doctor on duty confirmed that there was penetration,” Love said.
It was however gathered that Emmanuel has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Rivers State Police Command on the order of the Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu.
The incident was confirmed by the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko.
Iringe-Koko said an investigation into the matter was ongoing, adding that the errant policeman has been arrested and in custody.
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