A 42-year-old electrician, Taiwo Bakare, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos State for allegedly raping a 10-year-old primary school girl in his apartment at 45, Unity Street, Igando but he has protested that there was no penetration, he only oiled her thighs and rubbed his penis on them.
Taiwo was also said to be fond of defiling and sexually harassing under-aged girls at the Igando area of the state.
According to a Vanguard report, the victim, whose name has been withheld, resides on the same street with Bakare and was lured into his apartment on Sunday September 10, 2013 where Bakare allegedly raped her.
The incident left the victim in pain, which was obvious to the mother. When the mother asked her daughter what the matter was she narrated the story of how Bakare had raped her. On hearing her story, she quickly ran to report the matter to the police.
After the mother’s report, a team of policemen led by Ben Osuji, a Chief Superintendent of Police, went out to arrest Bakare but did not meet him at his apartment. After a long search, he was found hiding inside a pit beside a canal close to his apartment.
The victim narrated her story saying, “I was in my mother’s shop when he came in and said he wanted to buy a can of milk, I told him the price and gave him one can and demanded for my money and he refused to pay me. All my pleas for him to pay me fell on deaf ears. Rather, he insisted that he was going to go away with the milk and I refused.” She said.
“After a hot argument,” She continued. “He said he has some money in his house and I should follow him to get my money. On getting to his house, I stood by his door and he asked me to come inside but I refused. Then, he went inside and acted as if he was getting my money but when he came out, he stretched his hand and gripped my mouth and prevented me from screaming. He threw me on his bed and pulled off my pants before he started having canal knowledge of me. I screamed but no one came in to help me. I told my mother about it when I got home.”
While being whisked away by the police after his arrest, the suspect, Bakare, who was weeping profusely told Crime Alert, “ I am a 42 -year -old man and I am married with four children, my last child is a girl and she is also 10 years but she and her mother live in Abuja. I am the owner of my building and this small girl, pointing at the victim, lives on the same street with me and I usually go to her mother’s shop to buy grocery items but I don’t know what came over me today when I saw her. I took her home, I pulled off her pants and also threw her on my bed and I attempted to have sex with her but my penis cold not enter her vagina because it was tight, so I rubbed oil on her laps and inserted my penis in between her laps. I didn’t have sex with her.” he lamented.
Residents of the area, however, described Bakare as a paedophile. They also said many other parents had refused reporting their case to the police when their wards were raped by him for fear of stigmatization.
