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Driver arrested for raping 78-year – woman to coma

Driver arrested for raping 78-year - woman to coma
Driver arrested for raping 78-year -  woman  to coma
Jelili

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a commercial bus driver, Jelili for allegedly rapping a 78- year -old – woman in an isolated area at the Adeniyi Jones , Lagos.

The old woman was badly injured during alleged rape and is receiving treatment in the hospital .

The victim had missed her way and allegedly approached the suspect at Maryland , asking on how to get to her destination at Ketu.

The suspect was said to have promised to take the victim to her destination .
The woman who was so happy ,joined the suspect in his bus ,but along the line , the suspect drove the confused woman to lonely place at Oloti village , off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja and raped her without mercy .

A police investor said : ” Jelili raped the woman severally ,but the old woman did not easily give up as she kept shouting for help even though the suspect covered her mouth with dirty rag.A woman who over heard her shout of pains , made a distress call and the we raced to the scene where we arrested the suspect.The woman was bleeding profusely “.

Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command , CP Imohimi Edgal, who paraded the suspect at the Commanded Headquarters, Ikeja, said , the unfortunate incident occurred on the New year day.

The police boss said that at about 8pm, a 78 -year – old woman, met one Jelili Lawal, 41, a bus driver, at Maryland , Ikeja and begged him for direction to Ketu as she was missing her way .

Edgal said that the said Jelili offered to help her adding that the delighted victim entered the suspect’s bus.

He said the suspect had other intentions: “The suspect drove the victim to a location in Oloti village off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja and raped her. while the suspect was at it, the woman let out a cry that attracted someone in the neighborhood who quickly called the police and directed them to the location where the cry emanated.

“That was how the police caught the suspect in the act and rescued the old woman who was already bleeding from her private part as a result of the assault on her divinity.

” The victim has been taken to the hospital and she is being counselled by trauma specialist. Meanwhile the suspect will be changed to court as soon as investigation is over” he added.

Edgal who frowned at the attitude of the bus driver who took advantage of the old woman disclosed that similarly on January 3, 2019, a report was made at Alakuko Police Station, that one Samuel Balogun, 17, of number 14, Ademola Aboila street, Alakuko,took a 12- year- old girl to an uncompleted building and had carnal knowledge of the child.

He said that the said Samuel Balogun was promptly arrested and that he was undergoing interrogated at the gender section of the command adding that the suspect would be charged to court for defilement at the conclusion of investigation.

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