The police spokesperson said that during interrogation, the victim revealed that she was sent on an errand by her parents when the suspect, Innoma took advantage of her.
The police in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria have said that the suspected rapist of a 15-year-old girl at Ado Girls Secondary School, Onitsha, Mr. James Innoma, will be arraigned in court on March 29.
The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, made this known on Friday when the Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, alongside the Chairman Committee on Education at the Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr. Emmanuel Okpalaeke, paid a courtesy visit to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) to get an update on the rape case.
The police spokesperson said that during interrogation, the victim revealed that she was sent on an errand by her parents when the suspect, Innoma took advantage of her.
He also said that when the police received the case, they took the victim to the hospital where a series of tests were conducted which established that indeed there was defilement.
According to Ikenga, the suspect during interrogation confessed to the crime.
He praised the Anambra State Ministry of Education for being proactive in reporting the case to the Inland Police Station, Onitsha when the incident happened before it was transferred to the SCID.
He further thanked Governor Chukwuma Soludo for providing a special court through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare where gender-based violence cases are tried.