A man who confessed that he defiled his 2-year-old step daughter thinking she was his wife has been arrested by the Police in Akwa Ibom.
The man paraded by the Police as Iniobong Okon Moses of Ikot Amupe Obio Offot, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State allegedly defiled his 2-year-old step daughter alongside other suspects allegedly involved in incest and rape.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, SP Odiko Macdon, while briefing the press on Friday over the activities of sexual predators in the state said Iniobong forcefully defiled the two year old while carrying her on his laps.
This forceful penetration caused the victim to sustain serious injuries, which made her bled profusely, and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
Speaking with newsmen, the suspect confessed to the crime and narrated how he came back from a vigil, drunk, grabbed his two-year-old step daughter thinking that she was his wife and defiled her.
He disclosed that it was at the middle of the act that his wife nabbed him as she suddenly entered inside the house. She thereafter reported him to FEYrep- Family Empowerment Youths reorientation programme, a pet project of the wife of the governor, Dr. Mrs Martha Emmanuel.
He said, “I no know wetin come over me, that night as I come back from vigil, I took ogogoro, and I no know wetin I dey do. I carry my wife daughter which she get from another marriage and I think say na my wife, I come dey do am.”
“As I come dey do am, my wife enter from no where, catch me red-handed, come carry me report give FEYrep. I don beg am, but e no gree! even though e no say e born pikin for me three months ago.”