Man rapes girl, 13, to death on cocoa plantation

Men of the Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a suspected rapist identified simply as Sunday in Eyio Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area.

Sunday, 34, allegedly raped a 13-year old girl to death in Ekiti on Monday.

The suspected rapist, from Cross River State, reportedly tricked his victim, whose parents were his co-labourers, into a Cocoa plantation where she was raped.

The girl died in the processed. The suspect was detained at the Police headquarters in Ado Ekiti, while the corpse of the girl was deposited at the morgue of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital.

It was gathered that Sunday and the victim’s parents were labourers with a farmer (name not disclosed).

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Victor Babayemi, said the suspect was being detained at the Criminal Investigations Department in Ado Ekiti.

It was learnt that the residents of the village searched for the girl for three days before finding her decomposing body in the cocoa plantation.

A source, who hinted that the two went to the farm on Monday, said, “When the parents of the girl could not find their child around 8pm on Monday, the Eyio-in-Council  held a meeting and insisted that a search party should look for her.

“They later contacted the Police. The police perceived an odour  and traced the girl to the spot where they found her lifeless body with thick blood in her private part.”

Sunday was said to have confessed to the crime before being handed over to the police.

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