The defilement case involving a four-year-old student and a 46-year-old student has been withdrawn from court in order to allow for a thorough investigation, according to Delta State Command Commissioner of Police Wale Abass.
This was reported by the commissioner’s spokesperson, DSP Bright Edafe, as the suspect was being paraded on Saturday in Asaba.
“The Command is aware of a viral publication uploaded on several social media handles about the alleged defiling of a four-year-old child (name withheld) by one Innocent Ezeukwu 46, the owner of the Great Leader International school where the child is attending, the official added.
“When questioned, her daughter said that “her uncle cut her private area using school scissors. “The suspect, Innocent Ezeukwu, who doubles as the school’s owner and the sole male teacher there, was apprehended when the area commander, Agbor sent a team of investigators to the location of the alleged crime.
Innocent Ezeukwu, the culprit, was recognized by the victim as the man who allegedly defiled her during an identification parade exercise after a preliminary investigation led to the release of a medical report and its inception.
The medical report stated that the victim’s private area had “no hymen visualized.”
The Area Command, Agbor had finished its investigation and brought the matter to court, according to Edafe, but the commissioner ordered that it be taken out of court and sent right away to the State Criminal and Investigation Department for more investigation.
He claims that the CP assures the public and the family of the victim that justice will be done; he also makes an appeal for the public to exercise restraint while the inquiry is ongoing.