By Tina Amanda
A young man identified as Junior, the son of a landlord in Elele community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, is reportedly on the run after an alleged attempt to rape his tenant’s 15-year-old daughter failed.
Sources revealed that on the evening of Friday, January 17, 2025, Junior approached the tenant’s children, aged 8 and 15, to ask if their father would be returning home that night. The unsuspecting children informed him that their father would not be back.
Sources privy to the incident told our reporter that at about 1:am on Saturday night, January 18, 2025, Junior allegedly broke into the house of his tenant and headed straight to where the 15-year-old girl was lying down with her siblings and started romancing her and removed her pants.
Our source disclosed that the teenage girl who was asleep woke up when she felt a hand touching and removing her pants and she grabbed Junior’s hand who gave her a punch to enable him to escape.
We learned that the teenage girl quickly put on her torchlight and saw that it was the landlord’s Son while she raised the alarm attracting other neighbors to the scene.
When contacted, the Father of the teenage girl Felix (Surname withheld) said he has reported the case to the Police.
“I have reported the matter to Elele Police Division. Junior broke into my house at midnight in my absence and made attempts to rape my fifteen-year-old daughter, he ran away after the incident, we have not seen him after that day”.
The Spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, SP Grace Iringe Koko, is yet to respond to an inquiry made on the matter.
However, Police sources told our Correspondent that the Police is on trail of the suspect.
