Man Rapes Seven-Year-OldGirl, Damages Her Private Parts PHOTO

A man, simply identified as Julius, has allegedly raped a seven year old girl, damaging her private parts in Obafalabi Street, Ojodu Berger area of Lagos .Punch reports that Julius, is a northerner who stays in a rented apartment with his mother. It was reported that Julius tricked the Primary One girl into his apartment on the night of Saturday July 26, after which he had canal knowledge of her. The girl, whose names are deliberately not mentioned for both future and security purpose, had been searched for by her parents who wanted to go to mosque to have the night’s prayers to no avail, not knowing she was in the room of their next door neighbor.The little girl was said to have sneaked back to her parents’ room with obvious pains which the mother noticed when she gotback from the Muslim praying house. When asked what was wrong, she described how Julius told her to remove her pants, laid on her and telling her he was just play with her. This was followed by the arrest of Julius, after which the girl was noticed to have urinary disorder.Confirming the incident, the mother of the girl in her words to newsmen, said: “On that evening, when we came back from the mosque, she could not bend down properly. I asked her where she went and she initially lied, butlater said she had been in his room.“She said the man asked her to remove her pants, and he put his organ into her, stating that he was just playing with her. I then asked her to repeat the same to her daddy when he cameback. But in the morning when weconfronted Julius, he denied it. Then we called our family nurse, who came, tested her, and confirmed that she had been raped.“That same day, we took her to a private hospital where the doctoralso confirmed that she had beenraped the day before, and on several occasions. So, we reported at the police station. From that day, I observed she could not hold her urine.“A girl who had stopped bedwetting suddenly began to urinate during sleep. The medical personnel saidthere was a damage to her private parts that needed to be treated. That was how she resumed treatment at the hospital.”Furthermore, medical reports proved that there was a breach of hymen and the absence of labia minora, according to one Dr. Sanni who is in charge of the case at the private hospital the girl’s been for treatment for the past two weeks. Although the mother of the alleged rapist could not be reached when the apartment was visited by newsmen, the Lagos State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lelma Kolle, confirmed the arrest of the suspect, and added that the case, because of its severity, had been transferredto the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.