Nnena
In
yet another case of defilement that seems to be spreading across board
like a wildfire, it was the turn of an eight-year-old girl, identified
simply as Nnena, penultimate weekend when she was violated by a man,
Atipo Larry, whom she described as a customer in her mother’s shop.
As Nnena would tell Saturday PUNCH,
the incident, which happened around Oparo Street in Fagba area of
Lagos, on a Sunday afternoon, shortly after she and mum came back from
church, was not the first time Larry would sleep with her, saying he had
done ‘it’ with her on many occasions but that she was too scared to
tell her mum, identified simply as Janet.
The little girl, whose father is no more,
told our correspondent that Larry, who is said to be an ex-convict,
used to come to buy things from her mum’s shop, which is outside Larry’s
house. She recalled that her mum was not around the first time he did
‘it’ to her.
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In
the presence of her mother, who was visibly disturbed by the incident,
Nnena said, “It started one afternoon when my mum was not around. I was
the only one in the shop. When he came out of the house and saw me
sitting in front of the shop, he gave me N50 to help him buy cigarette,
pure water and Tom Tom and asked me to come and give him the items in
his house.
“When I entered the sitting room, he told
me not to tell anyone about what he wanted to do and that if I told
anyone, he would kill me. He carried me and lay me on the floor, removed
my dress and removed his. He lied on top of me and ‘did something.’ I
was feeling pains in my body and I tried to shout but he covered my
mouth.