Ajibola Akindele, 30, was detained by personnel from the Ogun state police command on April 18 for allegedly forcibly having carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old girl (name withheld) inside a church.
According to a statement made by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was apprehended after the victim’s mother reported to the Lafenwa divisional headquarters that she sent her daughter to decorate a church with the suspect on April 16, 2022.
”On getting to the church, they met some other women who came to sweep the church in preparation for Sunday service. But soon as those women left after sweeping the church, the suspect allegedly took advantage of being alone with the victim and forcefully had an unlawful carnal knowledge of her right inside the church.
Upon the report, the DPO Lafenwa division, CSP Kayode Shadrach, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect and bring him to justice. He said the detectives quickly moved into the scene and promptly arrested the suspect who have since confessed to the crime.” the statement read
CP Lanre Bankole, the state commissioner of police, has ordered the suspect’s immediate transfer to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department’s anti-human trafficking and child labor unit for further investigation and possible prosecution, according to Oyeyemi.
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