Lagos PPRO, SP Abimbola Adebisi. Photo: Police
A 38-year-old man, identified simply as Michael, along with another suspect, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly assaulting his 13-year-old stepdaughter.
PUNCH Metro learnt on Monday that the suspect was the stepfather of the 13-year-old girl and that she had been repeatedly assaulted before his arrest by the police in the Agege area of the state on Sunday.
According to sources in the community who were privy to the incident, the survivor, who was living with the suspect, had allegedly been running away from home before returning to her biological father, to whom she reportedly disclosed that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather.
One of the sources, who craved anonymity because of the sensitivity of the incident, told PUNCH Metro on Monday that the girl’s father subsequently reported the allegation at a police station in Ketu.
