Painter ‘rapes 3-year-old girl, offers her parents N100,000’

by Anike Jacobs

One 25-year-old painter, Hamzat Afeez, has been arrested for raping a three-year-old girl in the Egbeda area of Lagos State.

Reporting how Afeez carried out the act, Punch Newspapers said he took the victim’s younger sister into his room while their mother washed clothes in the house.

The victim was said to have followed Afeez into his room in a bid to play with her sister, only for the suspect to rape her.

She was said to have narrated the incident to her parents, who alerted policemen from the Gowon Estate Police Station.

The suspect, in an attempt to cover up the case, offered to compensate the victim’s family with N100, 000 as payment for her medical bills.

He was said to have been subsequently granted bail by the police, however the Lagos State Government and a non-governmental organisation, Project Alert on Violence Against Women, intervened and the suspect was re-arrested.

The victim’s father, Okechukwu, said the NGO had assisted the family with some money.

He added that he was seeking a new apartment in another area of the state.He said he looked forward to resettling with his family after the trauma of the incident.

He said,

“We are no longer living in Egbeda. The state government has taken custody of my wife and kids since the incident to protect them while I am trying to get new accommodation.”

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