“He started two years ago to molest girls
in attempt to rape them. It is not an ordinary thing. You know some people are
very good in hurting other people’s children. So for that reason I am
suspecting that. He has been staying with me from birth and just two years ago
when he was 16 years old, a man who lives close to us laid a curse on him.
“What happened was that we have a well in our compound and
Ikechukwu and one of the man’s daughters were at the well fetching water and
they had a quarrel. Ikechuwu beat up
the girl and when the man returned he
brought out a belt to whip Ike and I prevented him. He started boasting that he
was going to make Ike useless and miserable. I thought he was joking but after
that Ikechuwu started behaving funny.
“Whenever he goes out during the day and sees a little girl
he would grip and attempt to rape her and the girl would scream alerting people
around, who would arrest and beat him up before handing him over to the police
at Badagry Police Station.
About him been arrested four times for attempted rape
“On lucky days, he would escape and flee the area. He has been arrested four times over the same
offence and I am the one who normally goes to bail him.
“In April last year, he made me lose over N25,000 I paid as
WAEC exam fee. On the day he was supposed to start the exam, he left home with
his school uniform and didn’t return until after two weeks. When he came back he
told me that the demon came over him on
his way to school and he gripped a girl and when the girl screamed he managed
to escape so he decided to run away from home.
“I and the father went to beg the people whose child he
molested and I decided to follow him to school through out his NECO
examinations.
“The last one before this occurred on December 10, 2013 at
Imeke. He was arrested and charged to court and remanded in Badagry Prison. I
got a lawyer who stood for him before he was granted bail.
“While these things were happening, I told our branch pastor
at Badagry about it but I didn’t tell our GO.
“Whenever he sees a little girl he would grip the girl and
when she screams he would return to him self. He does not do it at night, it’s
always during the day time.
“On this particular
case, he told me that he was going to work at a place where a building was
demolished by government opposite the French Village in Badagry. They are actually constructing a factory at that
place and he used to help them carry bags of cement for which they paid him
some stipends at the end of the day.
“He failed to
return home that day and I and his
father went out to look for him at his place of work and people around told us
that they didn’t see him. The next day
we didn’t see him, so by Wednesday, we decided to go to the police station at
Badagry.
“A police woman we met told us that we should go to the SCID
to look for him. I asked her what was his offence and she refused to tell me,
rather she said when I got to the SCID that I would know what was my son’s
offence.
“The next day I and my husband went to the SCID and when I saw my son he told me that there was a
woman who sells food close to where he used to work and the woman had a
daughter.
“He said on that day he was eating at the woman’s shop when
he saw the girl passing and all of a sudden something came over him and he
stood up and followed the girl and gripped her so tight and the girl screamed
and died after which he regained consciousness.
“He attempted to run, but someone at a building close by who saw all what happened apprehended him. He used to tell me that he was not misbehaving consciously but that something used to come over him and I have told our branch pastor about it and he prayed for him.
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