Crime
35-yr-old man began raping orphan since 8
After raping an11-year-old for three years Idowu Shittu, 35, ran out of luck, and got arrested by the Ogun state police command.
Shittu, who lives at Hallelujah Street, Ifo area of Ogun State, was apprehended by the police after his wife reported at Ifo division that Shittu had been forcing her cousin to sleep with her for three years.
According to the Ogun State police image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the cousin, whose mother died when she was a toddler, had told the woman that she had been enduring the sexual molestation because she had no other place to go.
It was CSP Kehinde Kuranga, having been briefed about the case, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, but pleaded for forgiveness from the little girl,” Oyeyemi said on Sunday.
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