The Ebonyi State Police Command said on Saturday that it had arrested two teenage boys aged 15 and 14 years for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Loveth Odah, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abakaliki that the suspects had confessed to the crime.
She said the police division at Ishieke arrested the suspects who allegedly defiled the victim in her father’s house as he was away for his daily business.
The police spokesperson disclosed that the suspects, though minors, would be remanded at the juvenile welfare home, if found guilty by the court.
Odah said: “The only thing that can make children of these age to indulge in such an act is cultism and drugs.
“Fidelis Nwoye in the company of his daughter came to the station and reported that both suspects went to his house while he was at his shop, tore his daughter’s clothes and raped her.
Odah noted that there had been an increase in cases of rape in the country in recent times, which had led to mass protest and a call for separate court to prosecute rape suspects.
(NAN)
