School Bus Driver Rapes 4-year-old Pupil after Dropping Others Off

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old school bus driver, Humble Michael, for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl in the Ogijo area of the state.

Police said Michael committed the crime last Friday, in Ogijo, after school hours, when he had dropped other pupils off and was taking the girl home.

It was learnt that the victim’s mother reported the matter at the Ogijo Police Division after she noticed blood coming out of her private parts.

The woman explained to the police that when her husband was bathing their daughter when he saw blood coming out of her private parts. When the girl was questioned, she disclosed that the driver of their school bus was the one who had sex with her.

She narrated that it happened when they were on their way home from school. 

The victim said the driver carried out the act when only she was left with him in the bus after he had dropped all other schoolchildren at their homes.

According to the police, operatives were detailed to arrest the suspect following the receipt the report.

“The victim was quickly taken to a general hospital for treatment and the doctor’s report confirmed that she had been sexually abused. On interrogation, the suspect admitted that he actually committed the crime,” police spokesman in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed.

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

“The CP also appealed to parents to always make the well-being of their children, especially female ones, a priority so as to save them from evil men lurking around everywhere.

“He also warned school proprietors to always conduct background checks on people they want to employ to save them from employing criminals,” Oyeyemi, further disclosed.

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