Young man rapes 16-year-old relative to death in Enugu
Police operatives in Igbo-Eze North Division of Enugu State with assistance from Neighborhood Watch Group have arrested a 21-year-old man, Junior Augustine Akor, for allegedly defiling and strangling his 16-year-old female relative, Faith Akuji, to death.
It was gathered that the suspect commited the heinous act on June 8 in a bush at Mpole-Ubere in the Ette community.
A statement by the spokesperson of the command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, says preliminary investigation indicates that the victim had gone missing in the evening of June 8 after her grandfather sent her to grind cassava in the community centre.
All efforts to trace her whereabouts proved abortive.
‘’Her decomposing body was, however, found in the mentioned bush, following the arrest of the suspect, who confessed to having dragged the victim into the bush, forcefully had carnal knowledge of her, until she fainted and died in the process.
The victim’s remains, found without any lower-body cloth, were evacuated to hospital and confirmed dead by doctors on duty.” he said.
Ndukwe mentioned that the case is undergoing further discreet investigation at the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (the State CID for short), from where the suspect will be arraigned in court upon conclusion of the investigation.
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