BENIN CITY–Edo Popice Commqnd has arrested a ‎35-year-old man for allegedly shaving the pubic hair of a woman who fell asleep in his room in Benin City.
Also arrested by the command is a man who allegedly defiled his 13-year-old daughter in Ologbo area near Benin.
The Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Samuel Adegbuyi paraded the two suspects along with 25 others at the ‎state police command headquarters, Benin, yesterday.
According to the COMPOL the suspect, Adamu Ibrahim lured the victim, (name withheld) “into his room, shave her arm pit hair and her pubic hair without her consent.”
The suspect, a resident of Aduwawa community in Benin who hailed from Funtua local government area of Katsina state, confessed to shaving his woman’s pubic hair while sleeping, but said that the woman was his girlfriend.
“I shaved the pubic hair of the woman because I wanted to sleep with her. She is my girlfriend”. He stated.
He however denied that he did it for ritual purpose, adding that he threw away the hair afterwards.
The suspect further stated that when the woman woke up and discovered that he had shaved off her pubic hair, she demanded to see the hair.
He maintained that since he could not produce it, she raised alarm and the people around the place called the police ‎who arrested him immediately.
The Police boss also stated that one Omonuyodo forcefully had canal knowledge of his 13-year-old daughter as the Family Unit of the police command is already investigating the defilement.
Also paraded were 18-year-old Emmanuel alleged to have licked the private part of a four-old child while her mother was away at Etete area of Benin.
24-year-old Okpu and 25-year-old Osagie in different locations and time, separately defiled five-year-old girls at Igueben town and Benin.
The police commissioner said investigation was on-going into the cases and they would be charged to court.