Ikumuyi Israel, the 27-year-old farmer who raped a 10-year-old girl, Esther Friday, to death in Igbotako, Okitipupa, Ondo State, has said he did not mean to killing, saying he only wanted to have sex with her.
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The farmer is said to have lured her into his room with N100 before raping her to death.
He claimed that she had been on his bed and they were both aroused, dismissing claims that he raped her. He added that problem started when his penis could not fit into her vagina, forcing her to shout for help. It was in a bid to cover her mouth to avoid calling unwanted attention that she died on his bed.
“She came to meet me in my kitchen asking me for money, but I told her the money I have is to cook soup.
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“After some time, she came back to meet me but this time she followed me from the kitchen for the bedroom still begging me for money. l later gave her N100 and slept with her in the room,” he wrote in his statement.
“I don’t mean to rape her, but when she slept with me on the bed. I felt aroused and decided to quickly have sexual intercourse with her.
“l did not force her to have sex. We were together on the bed. Trouble started when I was trying to put my penis inside her vagina, it did not enter very well.
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“My penis did not penetrate despite all my efforts to make sure I insert it. It did not fully enter.
“I covered her mouth with my cover cloth so that she could not raise alarm, she was crying, but nobody could hear or come for her help, it was then that she suffocated to death.
“She died when I was having sex with her. She was in my room from 4:30 pm till 6:00 pm.
“l became afraid after she died, I could not come out of my room when her parents began to look for her,” he wrote.
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Israel said he was in the room with the deceased when he heard one Mummy Peju passing by the door and said they were looking for the deceased.
“One Baba Awu called me and when I opened the door to answer him some of our neighbours came into my room and started beating me.
“It was in the process that they came into my room and found the dead body of the girl on my bed.
“They beat me before they handed me over to policemen,” he said.
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He has since been remanded in Owo prison by an Akure Magistrates’ Court sitting at Oke-Eda.
According to the charge sheet, the accused person allegedly committed the offence around 4:30 pm, at Akinfosile Village via Igbotako, in Ondo State on February 2, 2021.
The trial Magistrate N. T Aladejana adjourned the matter till May 3, 2021, for mention.
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