A 36-year-old man (name withheld), who
allegedly enticed some underage girls to pat his sexual organ
affectionately for N500, was on Friday in Lagos nabbed, according to the
Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT).
The suspect was apprehended by some residents of Silver Crescent Estate, Oke-Afa in Isolo area of Lagos.
The
Coordinator of the team, Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, told the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the agency’s intervention followed a report
by residents of the community.
DSVRT is a
collection of professional service providers and officials that respond
as a group and in a timely fashion to the various needs of domestic and
sexual violence survivors by providing legal, medical and emergency
assistance.
It also provides counselling and
psychological and psycho-social support as well as encourage and create
unprecedented level of collaboration among professionals working to end
sexual and gender-based violence.
To report
domestic and sexual violence as well as other gender-based abuses, the
agency has advertised the following numbers — 112, 08137960048 and
07032165181.
Vivour-Adeniyi said:“The man was
nabbed on July 27 at 8.00 a.m. in the community; some young girls in the
area said they once reported the case to a woman in the neighbourhood,
who alerted other residents to watch out for such acts and strange faces
in the area.
“Luck ran out of the man on
Thursday morning when one of the young girls in the area sighted him in
the street and called the attention of some residents.
“The suspect, who said he had a shop at Ladipo in Mushin, blamed it on the devil.”
“The residents asked him to call his relatives which he did and his wife and children arrived at the scene.
“The
Divisional Police Officer, following a distress call by the community,
took the suspect accompanied by his wife and children, the girl that
identified him and others to the station,” she said.
Vivour-Adeniyi said after investigation had been concluded, the agency would prosecute the suspect in court. (NAN)
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