Man, 23, “uses engine oil to defile 3-year-old girl” in Ondo
23-year-old Christopher Arigidi has landed in police net for allegedly raping a 3-year-old girl in Apata, Ese-Odo LGA of Ondo State.
Arigidi allegedly took the victim to his house and raped her. He allegedly rubbed engine oil on her private parts to ease penetration.
Youths in the community are accusing the community chairman, Rufus Jagun, of trying to cover Arigidi’s alleged act up.
“The suspect and some people were sitting together at the function; all of a sudden, the guy stood up and said he wanted to go and change his cloth at home,” one of the youths said.
“As he was going, he took the girl along with him; the mother of the victim saw him when he was going. When the mother went back home, she did not see her daughter so she went to Argigidi’s house and found out that the girl had been raped.
“After discovering what happened, she reported to the youths who went to the man’s house to beat him up. He was later taken to the community chairman. He initially denied it but later confessed that he did it.”
The youth alleged that Arigidi’s family came to beg the chairman and he had released the suspect to them.
However, the community chairman, Jagun, denied releasing Christopher to his family. He said, “I told some people to lock him up in a room since we don’t have a police station in our community.
“The decision to take him to a police station lies in the hand of the victim’s father because the nearest police station to our community is very far.”
