The Edo State Police Command has paraded a 16-year old boy for allegedly defiling a 2-year old baby girl.
The suspect, who spoke with journalists on Monday during his parade at the police headquarters in Benin, said he didn’t know what came over him.
He said: “The 2-year old girl always comes to meet my sister. She came on this day, and I told her to go back home that my sister was not around but she refused to go.
“So, I then carried her, put her on the bed and pull down her pants halfway. But I did not defile her. I did not penetrate her, I only put my penis between her laps. I didn’t know what came over me because I haven’t done it before.”
The Edo Police State Command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the suspect committed the offence on June 7 in Egba community, Uhunwonde Local Government Area.
He said the police promptly arrested the suspect, immediately after receiving a report that the teenager defiled a 2-year old baby girl in the community.
The police spokesman said an investigation into the matter is ongoing under the gender unit of the criminal investigation department.
He assured that as soon as the investigation was concluded, the suspect would be charged to court.
