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Crime & Punishment of Sunday, 23 February 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Police arrest man for forcefully having anal sex with two 10-year-olds

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The Katsina police have apprehended a 32-year-old labourer for allegedly raping his neighbours' 10-year-old daughters through the anus. The Police arrested the suspect, Nazifi Ibrahim, following complaints by Muhammed Bature and Liti Usman, both of Ketare village in Kankara Local Government Area of the state – reported the incident at Kankara Police station on 2 February 2020.

Ibrahim reportedly carried out the heinous act on the 31st of January 2020, according to statements by Muhammed Bature and Liti Usman, Ibrahim's neighbours.

They alleged that Ibrahim who is their neighbour “lured and deceived” their daughters to an uncompleted building near their residence and “forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of them through the anus.”

Ibrahim was charged with an unnatural offence, according to section 255 of Katsina state penal code law after confessing to committing the offence in the course of interrogation, the police said.

The police prosecutor, Sergeant Lawal Bello told a Katsina senior magistrate court where Ibrahim was arraigned that investigation was still in progress on the case and requested a new date when the case could come up for mention at the court.

The presiding magistrate, Hajiya Fadile Dikko granted the request and adjourned the case to 2 April 2020 for mention.

She directed that Ibrahim be remanded in a correctional facility till then.