Policeman said victim enjoyed being raped
The petition, the school
The last may not have been heard of Mr. Danwanu Moses, the aggrieved
father whose daughter was allegedly defiled five years ago by her
school’s proprietor.
Moses alleged that a Divisional Police Officer said his daughter (the victim) would have enjoyed being raped.
This allegation was contained in a petition written by the father to the Ogun State Commissioner for Education, dated Friday, June 20, 2014 and obtained by our correspondent.
PUNCH Metro had on June 19, 2014, reported that the aggrieved father
called for the arrest and prosecution of the school proprietor for
allegedly defiling his daughter when she was 11 years old.
The
father also explained in the report that the school proprietor took
advantage of his closeness to him (the father) to commit the act and
that the daughter could not tell anybody because she had been threatened
by the school proprietor not to tell anyone.
He accused the
police in the petition of failing to live up to their responsibility to
protect the girl child from sexual harassment.
Citing a press
conference addressed by the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Adejoke
Orelope-Adefulire, on the 2014 International Day of the African Child,
the petitioner said, “The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Adejoke
Orelope-Adefulire, recently called for a collective action to stop all
forms of sexual harassment, assault and abuse, particularly rape cases
against the girl-child.
“On addressing a press conference on
the International Day of the African Child 2014, she stated that parents
must not hesitate to report cases of sexual harassment, assault and
abuse to the police in order to expose and prosecute the offenders to
serve as deterrent to others.”
Expressing his disappointment on
how the police handled his complaint about his daughter’s ordeal, he
said, “The police will not act to protect girls. Their failure to
protect the girl-child, especially in the villages is a disgrace to
Nigeria in the eyes of the world.
“I took my daughter to the
local police and appealed to them to arrest and prosecute this man but
they dismissed me and said there was no evidence and the DPO in front of
my daughter said she would have enjoyed it anyway.
“This is
the most disgusting behavior of the police in response to a very serious
crime with long lasting psychological damage on the victim.”
He also urged the Ogun government in his petition to ensure justice for
his daughter, adding, “My daughter and the other girls who have been
abused by the proprietor deserve justice; they deserve to go to school
without fear of harm, without having to be faced by the man who raped
and defiled them.
“I beseech you to please help me find justice and secure the safety of my daughter and the girls in my village.”
The police spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi,
when contacted, urged our correspondent to send him a text message,
promising to get back to him.
He had, however, yet to reply to the text message or call our correspondent back as of the time of going to the press.
6/24/2014
Policeman said victim enjoyed being raped
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