A 41-year-old tanker driver identified as Bashiru has been arrested in
Calabar for allegedly defiling a two-year-old girl and infecting her
with a sexually transmitted disease.
The incident happened in Okom Ita, Akamkpa Local Government Area, Cross
River State, when the two-year old girl (name withehld) strolled from
her mother’s room into Bashiru’s apartment to play with the man she
calls “uncle.”
Margaret, the toddler’s mother who narrated the incident to Vanguard
said she did not stop her daughter from going into Bashiru’s room
because she considered him a neighbour who could not harm her daughter.
She said: