Even before the news of the Nigeria Senate’s deletion of a clause in the constitution that protected underage girls from getting married off by their parents sinks in, a 9 year old girl has died during sex with a 20 year old man.
The 20 year old man, Chijioke Nwakor has been arrested and will be charged with raping a minor.
The suspect allegedly engaged the little girl in a marathon of love making which resulted in her death.
Chijioke told the officer heading the homicide unit of the state CID, Mr. Joseph Inuyashe that he was born in Aniocha Local Government Area, but grew up in Onistha, Anambra until recently when he relocated to Okuku-Yala Local Government in Cross River State where he is living with his parents.
He said since he came to Cross River State, he had abstained from women, regretting that his first attempt to make love to a girl of his desire has resulted in tragedy.
He said: “I used to see the girl everyday in Okuku-Yala, where I stay with my parents. I don’t know what pushed me last Monday to approach her.
The suspect insists that he did not rape her; that the two were making love.
“I discussed with her and she accepted so I took her to one of the abandoned buildings that has been overtaken by weeds, where I told her to remove her underwear and she complied.”
“I did not slap her or do anything to her.
“I told her to bend down because the place was too dirty. The uncompleted building is now used as a toilet, because most people living around there had no toilet.”
Chijioke said he then went for marathon love-making but Alice started crying but he thought she was pretending.
Few minutes later, Alice slumped and became unconscious and he decided to raise alarm calling for help.
Alice was rushed to hospital while Chijioke went round the community sourcing for money to foot the hospital bill.
“I was still looking for money when somebody called me that the girl was dead,” he said.
Cases similar to this are expected to rise as the law passed by the Nigerian Senate takes effect.
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