The police command in Rivers says its operatives have arrested a couple for allegedly raping and beating a 13-year-old girl in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
NAN reports that Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, said the incident happened in Rupokwu town in Obio/Akpor LGA.
According to the police spokesperson, Goodness, the mother of the assaulted teenager, said the wife accused her daughter of having sexual intercourse with her husband on December 25.
She alleged that the husband had sent his wife and her friend on an errand, leaving the teenager alone with him in the house on the day the incident happened.
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“After he raped her, he told my daughter to leave his house. My daughter returned home afterwards but did not report what had transpired, probably due to the threat from the man,” the police spokesperson quoted the mother of the teenager to have said.
“On December 29, 2024, the wife visited my shop and asked the teenager to follow her to her apartment and assist her with house chores.
“It was on getting there that she accused my daughter of sleeping with her husband, stripped her naked, poured pepper on her, and inserted the same in her vagina.
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“She then dragged my daughter outside and flogged her mercilessly with a machete while neighbours recorded the attack.
“Before I got home, neighbours had already rescued my daughter from the wife’s assault. My daughter was still writhing in pain from the beating and the pepper applied to her body and private area.”
The police spokesperson said the suspects have been transferred to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department (SCIID) for investigation and possible prosecution.
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