The police in Delta State have intensified the manhunt for a man who allegedly arranged the gang-raping of his 16-year-old daughter in Ogwashi Uku, headquarters of Aniocha south council area of the state.
The man simply identified as John of Agidiehe quarters was said to have accosted the girl (name withheld) while on an errand from the mum, on the road accusing her of stealing his N50,000.
Tribune Online gathered that the mother of the girl had separated from the man as a couple for the past ten years.
The suspect was said to have earlier beaten the woman mercilessly in her rented apartment and thereafter met the daughter on the road, accusing her of conniving with the mother to steal the money.
However, it was alleged that the man dragged the daughter into his house where he allegedly arranged for some boys to inflict multiple injuries on her before the suspects who are also at large allegedly took their turn.
” My mother had sent me to her sister to tell her how my father beat her and it was on my way that my father met me and took me to the house and locked me inside where the boys inflicted wounds and he, my father shaved my hair,” the girl was quoted as saying.
Tribune Online further gathered that some persons in the neighbourhood, as an act of God, quickly broke into the room to rescue the girl.
They were said to have taken the abused girl to the state hospital in Ogwashi Uku where she is currently receiving treatment.
Confirming the report on Wednesday, the state police public relations officer, DSP Bright Edafe said it was the mother of the girl that reported the matter to the police.
According to him, the police can not confirm the authenticity of the story since statements were yet to be extracted from the father and daughter adding efforts were being made to arrest the fleeing dad.
Meanwhile, the Delta state government has frowned at the rate parents of rape victims flood the ministry of Justice with applications for withdrawal of such cases.
The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Isaiah Bozimo disclosed this during a media parley with members of Indigenous Correspondent Chapel (ICC) of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Delta State Council, where he said that the ministry was more than ever before ready to discharge one of its mandates of prosecuting criminality.
He expressed worry that culprits of rape cases were on the increase, wondering how it could be nipped in the bud if parents of victims were not on the same page with prosecuting authority in fighting a grievous crime as rape.
Bozimo also expressed the ministry’s resolve to continue to pursue such cases to their logical conclusion so long there was strong evidence to do so, and advised victims or their parents to come forward whenever such happened.
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