Police have arrested a 9-year-old boy for allegedly def!ling a 3-year-old girl in Karfe community in Maje District of Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State.
According to the Daily Trust, the accused, a primary 3 pupil, and the victim, a pre-nursery child, attend the same private school.
An Abuja-based activist, Comrade Nura Muktar, whose organisation, Human Rights Network in Nigeria, is participating in the matter, said the boy was accused of luring the minor into an isolated class within their school and used his finger to defile her.
“She was rushed to the hospital bleeding and she was admitted for some days before being discharged,” Muktar said.
“This was the second time the boy was accused of committing such an act against her at the school. He did the same sometime in July, which was resolved at the family level, only for the worse now to happen.”
He said following the latest incident, the girl’s father went to the school and engaged its management in verbal confrontation and, in the process, hit the school’s computer and the printer out of emotion.
“They reported him to the police and eventually arraigned him before a magistrate’s court before being released on bail.”
The spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, confirmed the incident.
“On 9/11/2024, a report of indecent assault was received at Maje Div. Suleja against one Ibrahim Umar (9) of Sabon-Wuse. It was reported that on 6/11/2024, Umar and one other of the same school indecently assaulted a girl of about three years of Karfee, Kaduna road, by fingering her private part,” the PPRO said.
“The police operatives of the division took the minor victim to the Suleja General Hospital for medical examination, while an exhibit of a pair of pants with suspected blood stains was recovered.
“During questioning, the said Ibrahim Umar, confessed to the crime in the presence of his parents. Further investigation is ongoing at Maje Division,”