Proprietor defiles four-year-old girl

Information gathered by The Punch, learnt that a four-year-old girl was defiled by the proprietor of her school. Mr Elias Oyeke, who is 42 years old, is the proprietor of Victory International School, Mararba, Nasarawa state.

Reports had it that Mr Oyeke had been having carnal knowledge of the minor severally, while often threatening the little girl, not to let anybody know about the malevolent act. She frightened the girl always, saying she will get into trouble if she informs anyone.

Choice (a pseudonym for the four-year-old girl) is in nursery one. The girl herself briefly narrated the sad incident. She said her proprietor told her to tell a lie, in case her parents discovered she has lost her virginity. She said the school proprietor told her, to tell her parents it was one of her male classmates, who is also four years old like her, who defiled her.

Choice stated: “Uncle Elias spread my legs, covered my mouth and told me to shut up. He will put me on a chair, and lap me and he will start doing it. He will then give me sweets.” Esther, the victim’s mother said, she suspected something was wrong with her daughter, when she refused to be bathed by anyone sometime in February. 

Esther said, it was after a few days her daughter did not allow anybody to bathe her, that she insisted, she would bathe her. She said it was then, she found out the severe injuries in her child’s private parts. She said Choice first told a lie it was one Gabriel, her classmate, who forcefully defiled her. 

Afterwards, she said she went to her child’s school, to confirm the veracity of her claim the following day. Being a mother, as Esther narrated her child’s sad ordeal, with all in tears in her eyes, she stated: “I usually dropped my daughter at school around between 7am and 7.25am, before school resumed proper and I always handed her over to Mr. Elias. However, after some time, my daughter started behaving strangely as she prevented me from bathing her. 

“I didn’t know that she was acting under the instructions of Elias. One day, I insisted that I must bathe her so I forced her legs open and while I was washing there, she started crying and screaming in pain. “When her father got back, I opened her private part and saw that it was wide and very red. 

I knew that she could not have sustained such an injury at home so I took her to the school the next morning to confront Mr. Elias. Elias began to shake but denied knowledge of what happened.  “On getting to the pharmacy, we were told that it was impossible for a four-year-old boy to do such damage to the girl’s private part. 

At the pharmacy, I kept on asking my daughter who injured her but she would just look at Elias and keep quiet. “Then, I began to suspect that he knew something. I then took my daughter away and asked her to tell me the truth. She finally confessed that it was the school proprietor that had been raping her. 

“Choice said Elias started by putting his fingers in her vagina. She said anytime it was time for break, Elias would take her to the school’s backyard, take off her pants, put her on a chair and start having sex with her. 

He usually gave her sweets. After doing it, he cleaned her up with a red handkerchief.” It was about a week ago that a school owner was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, for sleeping with a ten year-old girl, who was his student.