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By Simon Ebegbulem Child defilement is becoming a source of concern in Benin-City, Edo State capital. It is even more worrisome when the act is carried out by supposedly men of God. In the last few weeks, no fewer than five children have, allegedly, been defiled in Benin-City by men old enough to be their fathers. On Thursday,  Edo State Police Command paraded 32 suspected criminals, amongst them, three accused of defiling children. The suspects include  a pastor with the Deeper Life Bible Church, Abudu, Edo State, Eze Fidelis, who was said to have had carnal knowledge of two girls: Joy, 9, and Anthonia,11. There is also the case of one Grace, 12, who was sent on an errand by her mother to get her a rechargeable lantern from a hall within their compound.  When the said girl failed to return after 30 minutes, the mother went in search of her, only to discover that one Segun Oteru,  42, was allegedly having carnal knowledge of her in the hall. The woman raised the alarm which attracted m...

Abuja -  An Abuja Senior Magistrates' Court on Thursday sentenced one student, Akande Abiodun, 29, of Kuchingoro, Airport Road, to three months imprisonment for attempted defilement. Senior Magistrate Nafisat Ibrahim sentenced the accused with an option of N10,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to the charge. Earlier, the Police prosecutor, Cpl. Francis Tanko, told the court that one Emmaunella Osajie, the mother of six-year-old girl of 86 Army Barracks, Kubwa, reported the case at the Wuse Police station. Tanko said that the complainant had reported that the convict came to her office at Poly Plaza, Wuse, on the pretext of coming to type a document. He said that the convict made advances at her child, took her upstairs, kissed her twice on the lips and put his finger in her private part thereby trying to defile the child. According to him, the child ran and alerted her mother of the incident. The accused, while pleading guilty told the court, ``My Lord, it was a devil's handwork...

BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS — Policemen attached to Ikotun division in Lagos have arrested a man alleged to have been having carnal knowledge of his two daughters between the  ages of 10 and 13, in the past two years. His daughters reportedly claimed to have been going through what they described as horrible experience since their mother left them for another man. Unable to resist their father, they endured until the elder girl confided in her friend’s mother, who then contacted some child rights groups. The organisations were said to have effected the man’s arrest  at his 29, Omooye Street, Abaranje, last Saturday and handed him over to policemen at Ikotun division. Explaining, the elder child (names withheld) said: “Our father started it when I was 11 years old. I did not know he was  doing same to my sister who was then eight years. I only got to know when I saw her blood stained undies and when I demanded to know whether she had started seeing her monthly flow, she revealed that our fath...