Man caught defiling minors in toilet

Security men yesterday prevented a mob from lynching an elderly man, Peter Ismaila of Kurmi-Gwari, a Kaduna suburb, when he was caught sexually assaulting two primary school pupils in a toilet.
Our correspondent gathered that the suspect lured a 12 year old and her friend of 11 years, all of Kurmi-Gwari, to a toilet at the Kurmi-Gwari primary school and defiled the first one but was caught attempting her friend.

The father of one of them, Mr. Monday Akwi, told Daily Trust at the Kaduna police headquarters where the suspect was paraded, that he had sent his daughter to the market to buy soybeans but on her way, the suspect lured her and her friend with N170. Akwi who said after giving them the money, he took the children to a primary school toilet and there, forcefully defiled her.

“But in the process of forcing his way through the other girl, she screamed, alerting the security guards of the primary school to the scene. They broke into the toilet and arrested the suspect in the act’’, he said. In an interview, Peter Ismaila confessed to the act but denied the claim that he defiled one of the girls before he was caught. “I gave them money before they followed me to the toilet but I did not force them as the police and people are saying. They followed me willingly because of the money I gave them. Please stop saying that I penetrated the girls, I did not, if I did, you would have seen tear and blood in their underwear,’’ he said.

The suspect who works with a private security outfit in Kaduna, said he had a wife and two children and that it was the devil that pushed him to the act. Kaduna State Commissioner of Police Tambari Yabo Mohammed confirmed the incident and the suspect’s confession. He urged parents to always educate their children, especially the girl child on the activities of rapists. He also said that one Elkana Lawrence of Kabala Doki had been arrested for defiling one other girl of the same address.

The police commissioner said the suspect was arrested following a report by the mother of the victim. “The mother, Mrs. Grace Yakubu of Goni close Kabala-Doki, reported to the police last week that her daughter, was not walking properly and that after several questioning, the girl told her that it was Elkana that had been defiling her for sometime but threatened to kill her if she exposed him,’’ he said.