By Robert AKPAN, Senior Investigator Reporter, Lagos.
MARAINERUME Alfred, a 45 year-old home video cassette seller who was arrested for defiling a 14 year-old girl has blamed divorce of his wife for his action. Sources told CrimeWorld that both the SS1 girl and the divorced sexually perverse films seller who had his shop at Iyana-Ejigbo lived on the same street in Ejigbo community. According to source, the girl who had developed feminine features above her age became attracted to the apparently sex-starved Alfred who cashed in on the exit of his legally married wife from his life to lure the teenager into sexual escapade. The affairs it was further told had last for more than one year now adding however, that the bubble burst after the unnamed girl returned from school and was smelling awfully prompting her grand mum who was at the time present to inquire what went wrong with her normal smell. She was said to have opened up to her granny; confessing that had been having sexual intercourse with one Alfred in his shop stressing that at the end of each bout, he gives her salt solution and other unnamed drugs to drink so as to prevent unwanted pregnancy. It was learnt that the said suspect was later picked up by Police operatives attached to Ejigbo Division and later transferred to the Gender Unit of the Lagos Command for further interrogation.
Lagos State Command public relations officer DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the incident saying, “One Marainerume Alfred, 45 years old of Oke Itunu Church Close, Ejigbo was arrested for defiling a 14 years old girl. The matter was reported to our Gender Unit by the mother of the survivor. The complainant stated that they live in the same street with the suspect. That the suspect usually call the survivor into his shop while on her way back from school, along Iyana Ejigbo road Lagos, where he sells Nigerian Films and have unlawful sexual intercourse with her in the shop. The Crime started from May 2018 up to 27 March 2019. The suspect, in his statement to Police, revealed that he turned the survivor into his sex partner after he divorce his wife in May 2018. The matter was discovered on 27th March 2019 at about 1400hrs, by the survivor’s grandmother who perceived some odours from the body of the survivor when she returned home and subjected her to questioning. The survivor opened up to her grandmother and narrated the whole story. She further stated that, the suspect threatened that she will die if she ever disclose it to her parents and that the suspect usually gives her some drugs to take and equally mixed salt and water for her to take after sex, to prevent her from getting pregnant. Investigation is ongoing, suspect will be charged to Court for defilement.”
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