Rivers Policeman Arrested And Detained For Raping 13-Year-Old Girl

 The Rivers State Police has arrested and detained one of its officers identified as Emmanuel for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in his office at the Bori Area Command in Khana Local Government Area of the state.

The officer who is currently attached to the Bori Area Command, has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the State Police Command on the orders of the Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu.

The teenager aunty who gave her name as Love told newsmen in Port Harcourt, on Saturday, said she sent the girl on an errand last Friday but was surprised that the she did not return home that day, prompting her to start looking for her.

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She explained that the little girl came back the next morning, Saturday, January 13, 2024, and upon interrogation, she narrated how the police officer held her that evening and defiled her in his office at the Bori Area Command till dawn.

Love said:

 “When she came back around 8am the following day, I asked her where she was coming from and where she slept last night.

“She told me that one police officer with two stars at the Area Command held her in his office at the Area Command, Bori, and raped her till daybreak.

“That he (officer) threatened to shoot her if she shouted. So because of that, she kept quiet. So when she came back I checked her as a mother and saw that somebody had touched her.”

Love who is the girl's guardian said she immediately reported the matter to the Bori Police Division.

She revealed that the girl was able to identify the errant cop before she was taken to the hospital by the Investigating Police Officer at the police division where the incident was reported.

“They now took her to their (police) hospital. The coctor on duty confirmed that there was penetration”, she said m

Love confirmed that Emmanuel’s colleagues whisked him to the SCID in Port Harcourt where he is being detained.

“All I want is for this matter to be properly investigated because he (the policeman) is still denying. So I want justice to be served,” the girl’s distraught aunt said.