Man in police custody for raping nine-year-old daughter of his girlfriend

Firstclass newsline that a trader, Cyprian Edundu, 38, is now in
police custody for allegedly raping a nine -year-old girl.
Firstclass newsline learnt that Edundu, who is allegedly dating the
victim's mother, lives in the Ojo area of Lagos, where her lover
resides.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the indigene of Imo State had lured
the girl to his room sometime in October 2014 and allegedly raped her.
It was learnt that Edundu, after the act, warned the girl not to
inform anybody.
The girl, however, reportedly told her mother when Edundu tricked him
into his room and attempted to rape her the second time.
It was learnt that the suspect was apprehended after the minor's
mother, identified simply as Amaka, reported the incident at the Ojo
Police Station.
Edundu, in a statement he made to the police, denied the allegation,
claiming that he only sent the girl on an errand. He said there was a
relationship between him and Amaka, adding that the woman used to send
the girl to him whenever she needed money.
He said, "I merely sent her (the victim) on an errand. I didn't rape
her. Amaka, her husband and I are very close. One day she (Amaka) came
to my room half-naked, asking for money. She seduced me one morning
when she needed N5,000. That was the first time we had sex. She sent
her daughter to me whenever she needed something."
Amaka, however, refuted having extramarital affair with the suspect,
but she admitted that she usually borrowed money from him.
She said, "I never went out with him (Edundu). Yes, I collected N5,000
from him, but I paid him back. The first money I got from him was
N1,000. He is just a neighbour to me and nothing else."
Edundu was brought before an Apapa Magistrate's Court on one count of rape.
The charge read, "That you, Cyprian Edundun, sometime in October 2014,
at about 10am on Semach Street, Agric, Ojo, in the Lagos Magisterial
District, did defile a nine-year-old girl without her consent and
thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 137 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011."
A police prosecutor, Inspector Olusoji Ojaokomo, told the court that a
medical test conducted on the girl at a general hospital in Lagos
revealed that her "hymen had been ruptured."
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, admitted him to bail in
the sum of N100,000 with one surety in like sum.
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