A Magistrate’s Court in Ado Ekiti has remanded a 54-year-old
man, Gbenga Adebayo for allegedly abducting and defiling an 11-year-old girl. It
was gathered that Adebayo lured the girl to his aged mother’s place in Ushi
Ekiti, about 60km from Ado Ekiti, where he was allegedly visiting her regularly
and sleeping with her.
Adebayo deceived neighbours by joining the search team for
the girl. The incident took another dimension when the girl refused to
cooperate with him again and demanded to see her family.
Adebayo then took her to one of her aunts in Akure, whom she
lied to that he found the girl wandering about. The aunt, who suspected foul
play reported the matter to the police. The victim during interrogation
confessed that the suspect had slept with her not less than 10 times where he
had hid her.
The victim while narrating her ordeal said, "He is my neighbour. He used to ask me to buy things for him. One day he approached me, saying he wanted to help me because my teacher was harsh on me. He said he would rescue me from my teacher and take good care of me. He then took me to his mother’s place in Usi-Ekiti. Whenever he comes there, he used to sleep with me. He has done this for 10 times now.
"I was at his mother’s place for three weeks after which I
refused to sleep with him again and because of that, he decided to take me to
my aunt’s place in Akure. He told my aunt that he found me in his mother’s
place in Ushi and decided to help me by taking me to her. He is the first man
in my life, " the girl said.
The girl’s aunt in Ado Ekiti, Mrs. Theresa Agboola, said the
girl was staying with one of her female school teachers near Ekiti State
Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti.
Agboola said, "About a month ago, June 5 precisely, the
girl’s teacher had called to inform me that she was missing and that the whole
occupants in the house, including the suspect, Gbenga Adebayo, were searching
for her.
"That continued till June 29, when my sister from Akure
called to tell me that the girl was brought to her by a man whom she identified
as the same Gbenga Adebayo. It was then we suspected a foul play.
"We felt that if indeed Adebayo was sincere, he cannot be
the same man who was part of the search team for the girl for three weeks here
in Ado-Ekiti and also be the one who would now take her to my sister’s place in
Akure after finding her. We then reported the case to the police who promptly
arrested Adebayo and charged him to court.
"Last Friday, the magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti remanded him
in prison. We also gathered that he has been sleeping with the girl before
eventually taking her to his mother."
The Ekiti State Police Public Relations Offcer, Alberto
Adeyemi, confirmed that the suspect had already been charged to court.
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