Twin brothers have been arrested for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state.
The suspects, Chukwuemeka and Chukwuebuka Okpe, were reportedly arrested together with their mother, Mrs Chinwe Okpe, caretaker of the house the victim resided.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Executive Director, Davina Care Foundation, Mrs Rachel Yohanna, said the case was brought to the foundation by the victim’s mother, Mrs Benedict Sunday, a nurse.
She said the arrests were made following report of the incident at the Abagana Police Station, after which the victim was taken to hospital where the defilement was confirmed.
She said: “She was taken to Ntasi Centre for Sexual Assault cases at Enugu-Ukwu General Hospital, where it was confirmed that she was defiled which caused perennial tears (the area between the vagina and the anus).
“She was later accompanied by a police officer and an aunt to the suspects to the police clinic for a second test when the mother of the suspects claimed the medical result from Ntasi centre was forged, but the result still came out positive.
“The victim’s mother said her daughter complained of pains in her private part and stomach sometime in November 2021, without telling her the caretaker’s sons defiled her.
“As a nurse, she bought drugs and used hot towel to massage her daughter’s vagina area.
” On January 16, she said she got back from work and met vigilante group with her daughter waiting. The group said they brought back her daughter after she ran to them for safety.
