Crime
It was a mistake, I defiled my two-year-old stepdaughter thinking she was my wife – alleged rapist
A man, who allegedly raped his two-year-old stepdaughter, claimed he committed the act in error.
The suspect, one Iniobong Okon Moses of Ikot Amupe Obio Offot, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said he thought the toddler was his wife.
Iniobong made the claim when he was paraded in the police command headquarters, Ikot-Akpanabia alongside other suspects allegedly involved in incest and rape.
The Police Public Relations Officer [PPRO] in the State, SP Odiko Macdon, who briefed newsmen on Friday over the activities of sexual predators in the state, said Iniobong forcefully defiled the two-year-old while carrying her on his laps.
The forceful penetration caused the toddler serious injuries, making her bleed profusely, the PPRO said.
He added that the girl has been taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
The suspect in an interrogation by newsmen confessed to the crime, He narrated that he came back from a vigil, drunk, grabbed his two-year-old stepdaughter thinking that she was his wife and had carnal knowledge of her.
He added that it was at the middle of the act that his wife nabbed him as she suddenly entered inside the house adding that the wife thereafter reported him to FEYrep- Family Empowerment Youths reorientation programme, a pet project of the wife of the governor, Dr. Mrs Martha Emmanuel.
The suspect said,
“I no know wetin come over me, that night as I come back from vigil, I took ogogoro, and I no know wetin I dey do. I carry my wife daughter which she get from another marriage and I think say na my wife, I come dey do am.”
“As I come dey do am, my wife enter from no where, catch me red-handed, come carry me report give FEYrep. I don beg am, but e no gree! even though e no say e born pikin for me three months ago.”
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