Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 70-year-old man, Hunsu Sunday, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his 15-year-old granddaughter (name withheld).
Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) said the septuagenarian was arrested on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
A statement issued by Oyeyemi, said the septuagenarian was arrested following a report lodged by the teenager’s aunty at Ado-Odo Police Division that the girl had been serially abused sexually by her grandfather.
Oyeyemi said that the girl who had been living with her grad father since she her mother died subsequently funny feeling in her body.
The statement said: ‘’The report made the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ado-Odo Police Station, SP Michael Arowojeun to send detectives to the scene, where the old man was arrested.
“When interrogated, the suspect confessed to having carnal knowledge of his granddaughter, but claimed that he didn’t know that the victim is pregnant.The victim has been taken to hospital for medical treatment.”
Oyeyemi added that the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution.
By Kunle Akinrinde