Lagos Trader Rapes Neighbour’s 12yr Daughter Inside Toilet

A 27-year-old trader, Lucky Bassey, has

been arrested by the police for allegedly

raping his neighbour’s daughter, Ruth

(pseudonym) in the Bariga area of Lagos

State.

Both the suspect and the victim live in

the same house on Akilo Street where

the incident happened.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the 12-year-old

victim was using the toilet penultimate

Monday, when the suspect forced the

door open and subsequently raped her.

Their correspondent was told that the

victim’s mother observed that she could

not walk properly after she left the

toilet. She interrogated Ruth, who told

her mother that Bassey had raped her.

The matter was reported at the Bariga

Police Division and the suspect was

subsequently arrested.

Ruth, a primary six pupil, told the

police that Bassey had s*x with her

while standing.

She said she could not tell how long the

sexual assault lasted, but in the end, the

suspect threatened to deal with her if

she told anyone. She said:

“I was in the toilet on Monday, May 25,

around 8pm, when I heard a knock on

the door.

I told the person at the other side that I

was using the toilet. But brother Bassey

forced the door open and closed my

mouth to stop me from shouting.

We were both standing when he raped

me. He said I should not tell my mother

about it or he would deal with me.”

The mother told PUNCH Metro that she

observed that after she left the toilet she

could not walk properly.

She said it aroused her curiosity and

she interrogated her daughter for

information.

“I called her and asked what happened

to her. She told me that Bassey raped

her.”

She said she reported the matter at the

police station, leading to the arrest of

the suspect. After the rape, Ruth bled

for a week.

She was reportedly rushed to a general

hospital in the state where she was

treated before the bleeding stopped.

The result of some tests conducted on

her, which was sighted, stated that

there was a forceful penetration into

her private parts “which affected her

femalecore and labia majora.”

The victim’s mother said Bassey’s

family members had been asking her to

forgive the suspect.

“We are both from the same village in

Calabar, Akwa Ibom State.

We also live in the same compound in

Lagos. His people have been asking us

to forgive him.

Even our landlady has also begged me.

But I have told them it was no longer

within my power and that the

government has taken over the case.

I don’t know why it will be my

daughter of all people that he will do

this to when there are many prostitutes

out there that he can have s*x with.”

However, the suspect denied raping the

victim. He said:

“I don’t know what she is talking about

because on that day, I did not enter the

toilet as she claimed and I did not rape

her.”

The Police Public Relations Officers,

Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted,

confirmed the incident.

He said, “We arrested the suspect and

he has been remanded in the Ikoyi

Prison after being charged to court.”