The incident happened on Monday after school hours. Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that the proprietor, identified as Mr. Tunde Ibitoye, picked the girl and another pupil of the exact same school and was taking them home in his car when he stopped at a deserted place and went in to the bush pretending to be defecating.
An eyewitness, who said he caught the suspect in the act, said some minutes after the person went inside the bush, he called the victim to bring him tissue to wash up.
The eyewitness, who identified himself as Kayode Ayeni, said he became curious when he saw the girl going inside the bush knowing full well that the man had first gone in to the bush some minutes earlier.
He explained he traced the girl's movement and found the person half naked and the girl also undressed and was in a compromising position.
Ayeni claimed that the proprietor was having carnal familiarity with the girl when he found both of these inside the bush. The argument between the eyewitness and the proprietor was said to possess attracted a crowd of passersby and residents to the scene.
The suspect was said to possess been beaten up and escaped being lynched due to the arrival of some policemen at the scene. The policemen, who stormed the scene,dispersed the crowd and took the suspect away.
When contacted, their state command's Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Victor Babayemi, said Ibitoye have been arrested for “defiling an 11-year-old pupil,” adding that the suspect was currently being interrogated by the police.
The PPRO said the girl told police investigators that the proprietor had slept with her. He added that the girl confessed that the final act was the fourth time the proprietor will be sleeping with her. He also said the girl's father told the police that there clearly was a period he noticed blood stain on his daughter's clothes but the person thought it was early menstruation.
The proprietor, however, insisted he didn't sleep with the girl but was just assisting her home after the college hours. But Babayemi said the girl have been taken fully to a hospital for medical examination, saying the effect will be made public when it was out.
Babayemi said, “There's a person inside our custody who was simply considered caught sleeping with an 11-year-old pupil. The girl has been taken fully to hospital for examination and we are expectant of the result.
“We're investigating to see if we could find other girls who the person may have defiled. When we find any, it would further corroborate the allegation. But we advise parents to alway ensure that their students are place in custody of responsible people.”
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