Man remanded for raping six-year-old to death

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for raping a six-year-old girl to death in the Ayobo area of Lagos State, Nigeria.

“The convict lured the victim with biscuits to an uncompleted building where he removed her clothes, and raped her four times with his hands on her mouth until she passed out from pain and suffocation,” reports said.

According to the police prosecutor, Chekwube Okeh, “the defendant, not knowing what to do when he found out that the girl was no longer breathing, left her corpse there naked and fled.”

The suspect was arrested by the Ayobo police officers whom he led to the uncompleted building where the girl’s corpse was recovered naked with her clothes scattered on the floor.

According to Okeh, the offence contravenes Section 222 and is punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.