Girl, 4, Defiled Inside School Premises

MICHAEL AKINOLA
Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, ACVPN, led by Comrade
Ebenezer Omajalile has called on the Police at Zone D Command, Mushin, Lagos,
to unravel those behind the defilement of of a 4-year old mentally challenged
girl inside the school premises.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Spring School located at
Mukandasi Street, Okota area of Lagos, where the victim was registered as a
pupil by her parents.
So far, five members of the School staff including the security guards have
been summoned and undergoing interrogations over the alleged assault on the
helpless 4-year old victim.
It was alleged that one of the staff
of the school was said to have been sacked by the School Management after the
parents of the victim complained.
The School Management was said to have refused to disclosed the identity of the
staff sacked or if the sack had to do with the defilement of the victim.
According to her mother, she brought the little girl to the school in the
morning on the day the incident happened, handed over her to the school
management and left for work.
She said that she went back to the school to take her home and the little girl
complained that her private part and anus were paining her. The mother then
checked and discovered that it has been tempered. Obviously, the predator may
have used fingers to molest the victim.
She was subsequently taken to the Mirabel Centre in Ikeja, Lagos, where it was
confirmed that her private parts was tampered with and the School Management
was said to have refused to bring forward the person behind the act.
The matter was initially reported to the Okota Police Division but was
transferred to the Gender Section of Zone D Command, Mushin, in line with the
State Command’s directive to transfer such cases to the Command or SCIID,
Panti, Lagos.
When P.M.EXPRESS reporter visited the school, the Management as headed by head
teachers declined to speak and did not give reasons they refused to tell the
Police what really happened and why they sacked their staff.
When the Gender Section handling the matter was contacted, they declined to
speak. However, sources at the Command said that the matter may likely be
transferred to SCIID at Panti for further investigation.
ACVPN Coordinator, Comrade Ebenezer Omajalile, said that the little girl needs
justice and the Police owe her duty to ensure that the predator was arrested
and charged before the Court for justice.