Again, 22 year old allegedly defile minor in Bauchi

The Police Command in Bauchi has arrested yet another suspected pedophile for allegedly defiling a 9 year old minor and threatening her with a knife.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mohammad Ahmed Wakil and made available to journalists in Bauchi.

It states that the suspect, one Samana Shua’ibu aged 20yrs trespassed into the house of one Mohammed Sani alias Kawu Sani ‘m’ of Dini Village via Rahama ward Toro LGA in the, where he entered his wife’s room and defiled his daughter and threatened to kill her.

The statement reads :”On 16th/09/2020 at about 0900hrs one Mohammed Sani alias Kawu Sani ‘m’ of Dini Village via Rahama ward Toro LGA Bauchi came to Toro Police Station and reported that on 15th/09/2020 at about 0130hrs one Samana Shua’ibu ‘m’ aged 20yrs of the same address trespassed into his house where he entered his wife’s room through the window and met his daughter by name Hadiza (not real name), aged 9yrs sleeping and threatened her with a knife not to shout or he kills her and forcefully had unlawful canal knowledge of her without her consent.

On receipt of the report, a team of Policemen drafted to the scene had the victim taken to General Hospital Toro for medical treatment, while the suspect escaped to unknown destination. Consequently, residents revealed that his family prevented the community from arresting the suspect as at the time of the incident, upon preliminary investigation the suspect was arrested and confessed to the crime”.

In a related development another suspect Ahmed Garba has been apprehended by the command over attempted defilement of a 10 year old.

“On 22/09/2020 at about 1800hrs one Abdullahi Mohammed ‘m’ of Bununu Tafawa Balewa L.G.A reported at Bununu Police Station that on the same date at about 1700hrs one Ahmed Garba ‘m’ attached to Habibu Engineering company took his daughter one Safiya (not real name) ‘f’ aged 10yrs of the same address into an uncompleted building located at Bununu market square where he removed her cloths attempting to have sexual intercourse with her. On receipt of the report team of detectives drafted to the scene victim was taken to General Hospital Bununu for medical examination, the suspect was arrested and confessed to the crime”.

He said investigation is ongoing after which suspects will be charged to court for prosecution.