A police sergeant (names withheld) has confessed to mutually making loving to a 13- year-old daughter of a popular pastor at Nkpor in Idemili Council Area of the state.
However, the teenage insists that she was raped at gunpoint.
According to a statement credited to the young girl, said to be two months pregnant, she alleged that the policeman ordered her at gunpoint to have sex with him on her way from school.
The girl told her parents that the policeman had threatened to kill if she informed anyone about the affair.
The threat made her keep the secret until few days ago when she complained to her mother about some symptoms, which after thorough investigation led to her confession of being pregnant.
The policeman initially denied the allegation and was supported by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, which made the victim’s parents to petition a human rights group and the state Commissioner of Police.
After the petition, the policeman was said to have accepted responsibility and agreed to take care of the girl till delivery.
He promised to be giving the girl’s family N20,000 monthly for the girl’s up keep, which the father turned down, demanding N300,000 to enable him take proper care of her daughter till delivery.