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)m
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