Police in Rivers State have arrested a man who allegedly defiled his three daughters, aged 9 months, 3 and 5 years old in Elekahia, Port Harcourt.
The Chairman of the Civil Rights Council, Rivers State chapter, Prince Wiro, who announced the incident on Wednesday, September 9, said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged by his wife.
Speaking to a journalist, the distraught mother said medical test conducted on the children by the Doctors Without Borders confirmed that there was penetration and their hymens tampered with.
She also alleged that the older girls revealed that their father had been molesting them.
The suspect, it was gathered, was dragged by youths from his home at Boms Street and handed over to the Elekahia police station.
A Senior police officer, who spoke on anonymity said the COVID-19 pandemic and non-admittance of new inmate prisons has prevented the suspect from being charged to court and remanded in prison custody.
