The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare in Anambra State Mrs Ify Obinabo through the help of the Anambra State Police command has apprehended a thirty-one-year-old James Rich for impregnating a fourteen-year-old girl in Awka.
James Rich from Cross River State but resident in Awka, is a yardman at the Saint Michael and All Angels Anglican Church Ifite Awka.
Interviewing the suspect, he admitted to have defiled the fourteen-year-old girl and impregnated her in the process.
The suspect, married with two children and expecting the third one, lives in the church premises where he carries out his daily activity and pleaded for pardon stating that this is his first time of committing the crime and that it was temptation that made him do so.
On her part, the fourteen-year-old victim who has developmental challenges added that the suspect always slept with her every Sunday morning before six thirty service.
Reacting to the incident, Mrs Obinabo who spoke through her Special Assistant Mrs Blessing Nweke disclosed that the case will be charged to court immediately in order to get justice for the girl.
Mrs Obinabo warned adults to stop defiling young girls especially minors to avoid spending the rest of their lives in jail as the State does not tolerate such.
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