38 yr old man rapes a 9yr old daugthter of his girlfriend

Man Arrested For Raping Nine-year-old Daughter
Of His Girlfriend

A cloth dealer, Cyprian Edundu, 38, has been
arrested by the police for allegedly raping a nine
-year-old girl.
We learnt that Edundu, who is
allegedly dating the victim’s mother, lives in the
Ojo area of Lagos, where her lover resides.
Our correspondent learnt that the indigene of Imo
State had lured the girl to his room sometime in
October 2014 and allegedly raped her.
It was gathered that Edundu, after the act,
warned the girl not to inform anybody.
The girl, however, reportedly told her mother
when Edundu tricked him into his room and
attempted To Molest her the second time.
We learnt that the suspect was
apprehended after the minor’s mother, identified
simply as Amaka, reported the incident at the Ojo
Police Station.
Edundu, in a statement he made to the police,
denied the allegation, claiming that he only sent
the girl on an errand. He said there was a
relationship between him and Amaka, adding that
the woman used to send the girl to him whenever
she needed money.
He said, “I merely sent her (the victim) on an
errand. I didn’t rape her. Amaka, her husband and
I are very close. One day she (Amaka) came to
my room half-Unclad, asking for money. She
seduced me one morning when she needed
N5,000. That was the first time we had sex. She
sent her daughter to me whenever she needed
something.”
Amaka, however, refuted having extramarital affair
with the suspect, but she admitted that she
usually borrowed money from him.
She said, “I never went out with him (Edundu).
Yes, I collected N5,000 from him, but I paid him
back. The first money I got from him was N1,000.
He is just a neighbour to me and nothing else.”
Edundu was brought before an Apapa
Magistrate’s Court on one count of rape.
The charge read, “That you, Cyprian Edundun,
sometime in October 2014, at about 10am on
Semach Street, Agric, Ojo, in the Lagos
Magisterial District, did defile a nine-year-old girl
without her consent and thereby committed an
offence punishable under Section 137 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.”
A police prosecutor, Inspector Olusoji Ojaokomo,
told the court that a medical test conducted on
the girl at a general hospital in Lagos revealed
that her “hymen had been ruptured.”
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya,
admitted him to bail in the sum of N100,000 with
one surety in like sum.
The case was adjourned till June 10, 2015 for
mention.