A visually impaired man, Tony Okhiria is in police net over allegations of defiling 8-year-old girl and her two other female siblings whose ages were given as 14 and 16.
Okhiria was apprehended after actionable intelligence by police operatives, following a complaint by mother of the victims, Ms. Oribho Ibhare who was his tenant at 9, Isidahomen Street, Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State.
The 49-yer-old Okhiria spoke to newsmen when he was been paraded by the Edo State Commissioner of police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu to newsmen recently at the state police headquarters in Benin City.
The accused person disclosed that he lost his sight to Glaucoma in 2009 after he returned from Lagos State to his abode at Ekpoma in 2003.
But the suspect who denied having canal knowledge of the minors, alleged that the Children and their mother had for a long time seduced him, sucked his breasts and his penis severally especially after he had finished taking his bath
‘Whenever they are playing with me, I do tell them not to come close to me because I am a Christian”
Okhiria said he had confronted the single mother of eight Children several times to pay him his rent, but to no avail, before the incident occurred.
He said trouble started when the victims mother, Ms. Oribho Ibhare, on one fateful day came with her little daughter, Miss Praise to his apartment, saying that her Child was bleeding in her private part.
Investigations further revealed that relatives of the suspect have indicated interest in resolving the matter in-house.
But the state police commissioner, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu has however assured that the case would soon be charged to court.
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