Man Arrested For Raping 9-Year-Old Daughter Of His Girlfriend

PUNCH Metro learnt that Edundu, who is professedly dating the casualty's mom, lives in the Ojo range of Lagos, where her beau dwells.

The merchant, Cyprian Edundu, 38, has been captured by the police for professedly assaulting a nine -year-old young lady.

We learnt that the indigene of Imo State had attracted the young lady to his room at some point in October 2014 and purportedly assaulted her.

It was accumulated that Edundu, after the demonstration, cautioned the young lady not to illuminate anyone.

The young lady, nonetheless, supposedly advised her mom when Edundu deceived him into his room and endeavored To Molest her the second time.


PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect was secured after the minor's mom, recognized essentially as Amaka, reported the episode at the Ojo Police Station.

Edundu, in an announcement he made to the police, denied the claim, asserting that he just sent the young lady on an errand. He said there was a relationship in the middle of him and Amaka, adding that the lady used to send the young lady to him at whatever point she required cash.

He said, "I just sent her (the casualty) on an errand. I didn't assault her. Amaka, her spouse and I are close. One day she (Amaka) went to my room half-Unclad, requesting cash. She tempted me one morning when she required N5,000. That was the first occasion when we had s*x. She sent her girl to me at whatever point she required something."

Amaka, nonetheless, discredited having extramarital undertaking with the suspect, however she conceded that she normally obtained cash from him.

She said, "I never went out with him (Edundu). Yes, I gathered N5,000 from him, however I paid him back. The primary cash I got from him was N1,000. He is only a neighbor to me and that's it."

Edundu was brought under the watchful eye of an Apapa Magistrate's Court on one tally of assault.

The charge read, "That you, Cyprian Edundun, at some point in October 2014, at around 10am on Semach Street, Agric, Ojo, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did pollute a nine-year-old young lady without her assent and along these lines carried out an offense culpable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011."

A police prosecutor, Inspector Olusoji Ojaokomo, told the court that a medicinal test directed on the young lady at a general healing center in Lagos uncovered that her "hymen had been burst."

The denounced argued not liable to the charge.

The managing justice, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, conceded him to safeguard in the whole of N100,000 with one surety in like aggregate.

The case was suspended till June 10, 2015 for notice.