Father of 4 rapes 10 year old girl - Blames the Devil

Forty five-year-old Taiwo Bakare, probably had nursed his sinister idea for a while. But on Monday, November 10, 2013, he decided to put his plan into action.

When the mother of 10-year-old Blessing (not real name) had left the shop where she sells petty goods on Unity Street, Egan area of Igando, Lagos, Bakare, who is a landlord on the street, walked up to the shop where the girl tended to her mother’s wares. Under the pretext of buying something, he took the girl to his house – a small bungalow at No 45 at the end of the long street – and defiled her.

No one saw anything. No one heard a noise that evening on the street as Bakare allegedly carried out his heinous crime. But as soon as Blessing’s mother returned to the shop, she knew something was amiss because her daughter was walking awkwardly.

“I asked my daughter what happened to her. I pleaded with her to tell me. She then told me that he (Bakare) came to buy something at the shop when I was not around and took her home and slept with her,” the distraught woman told the police.

Blessing reportedly told her mother and the police that she did not know what happened after Bakare bought what he came for at the shop. She said what she knew next was that he was on top of her in his house.

The girl’s mother did not waste time in reporting to the Igando Police Division, where the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Ben Osuji, drafted some of his men to apprehend the suspect.

“As soon as the suspect saw policemen, he fled and ran into a canal in the area. That was where we arrested him,” a police source told Saturday PUNCH.

During interrogation at the station, Bakare blamed the usual suspect – the devil – for his crime. Punch News

According to a statement he made at the police station, he said he did not know what came over him when he took the little child home and slept with her.

“I have four children but they are not living with me. My wife is not living with me as well. I would not pray for something like this to happen to my child because my last child is 10 years old. I cannot pray for something like this to happen to her. The devil made me do it,” he said.