Ogun state police command have arrested a 36-year-old school bus driver for allegedly defiling a 4-year-old girl (name withheld), a student of the school he worked at.
Spokesman of the state’s police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement expressed that the suspect, Humble Michael, was arrested on January 22 following a complaint by mother of the alleged victim at Ogijo divisional headquarters.
She claimed that while her husband was bathing their daughter, he discovered that blood was gushing out of her private part.
The woman alleged that when the girl was questioned, she disclosed to her parents that the driver of their school bus was the person who had sex with her on January 21, 2021.
Oyeyemi added;
The victim stated further that after the driver had dropped all other school children at their various homes, she was the only person left on the bus. This gave the driver opportunity to park somewhere along the road and defiled the little innocent girl.
Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division CSP Muhammed Sulaiman Baba detailed his operatives to go after the suspect and he was subsequently arrested.
Oyeyemi added;
The victim was quickly taken to general hospital for treatment and the doctor’s report confirmed that she had been sexually abused. On interrogation, the suspect admitted that he actually committed the crime.
The police spokesperson added that the commissioner of police cp, Edward Awolowo Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the anti-human trafficking and child labor unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.
He appealed to parents to always make the wellbeing of their children especially female ones a number one priority so as to save them from those evil men lurking around everywhere.
Ajogun also warned school proprietors to always have background checks of those they want to employ to save them from employing criminals.
