Police Arrest Man For Alleged Defilement Of 12-year-Old In Rivers

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command person arrested 48-year-old man, Emmanuel George, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old miss (name withheld) connected Ada-George Road successful Port Harcourt, the authorities capital.

The command’s spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, said George, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, had attacked his victim, who was connected an errand for her aunt.

She said the fishy dragged the unfortunate into a stationary tricycle, popularly called Keke NAPEP, tied her hands, covered her rima to forestall her from raising an alarm, and forcefully had carnal cognition of her earlier fleeing the scene.

According to her, the incidental occurred connected September 6, 2025, astatine astir 1930hrs.

The suspect’s apprehension was made by operatives attached to the CP Strike Force erstwhile they received a distress telephone that a 12-year-old miss (name withheld) who came to walk the holidays with her aunt astatine Mini Orlu, disconnected Ada-George Road, Port Harcourt, had been defiled.

Iringe-Koko said the victim, who her aunt sent to bargain immoderate fried potatoes connected the thoroughfare adjacent to their house, was unluckily attacked by 1 Emmanuel George ‘m’, aged 48 years, a autochthonal of Akwa Ibom State but nonmigratory astatine Close 6, Rumu-Evolu Road, disconnected Ada-George Road, Port Harcourt.

The constabulary representation maker, who issued a connection connected the incidental yesterday, said, “In a swift response, operatives were mobilised to the scene, and the unfortunate was promptly taken to the Police Hospital, Port Harcourt, for aesculapian attraction and examination. At astir 2200hrs the aforesaid day, the fishy was apprehended done coordinated intelligence.”

The exhibits recovered astatine the country included a bundle of enactment suspected to person been utilized successful tying the victim’s hand, 1 wrapper of fufu and a bluish tricycle.

Iringe-Koko said the fishy voluntarily confessed to the transgression during interrogation.

Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, Olugbenga Adepoju, has reaffirmed the command’s unwavering committedness to ensuring that perpetrators of transgression look the afloat wrath of the law.

Adepoju urged parents and guardians to ticker their children and wards closely, arsenic predators are wrong our neighbourhood and study immoderate suspicious activities to the nearest constabulary presumption oregon different information agencies.