The police in Delta State apprehended a community chief on charges of allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at Ebedei Ukwuole, within the Ukwuani local government area of the state.
Detectives from the Umutu police station took swift action and arrested the chief, who reportedly has four wives, after he was accused of assaulting the young girl, a Junior Secondary School class one student whose identity is being withheld, on two separate occasions.
The incident came to light when the victim confided in her mother, who noticed that her daughter was bleeding excessively.
Following the disclosure, investigations revealed that the chief, a father of several children, had allegedly offered the girl N50.00 before luring her to an uncompleted building.
It has been disclosed that the man allegedly committed the act twice and even resorted to threats of harm to prevent the young woman from disclosing his illicit actions.
“The time, he raped her, he did it in an uncompleted building. The third attempt was what exposed him after he allegedly forced her to take drugs unknown to her,” a source revealed.
DSP Edafe Bright, spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, has confirmed the incident.