{"id":77877,"date":"2025-11-02T04:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77877"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:36:13","slug":"fct-police-arrest-20-year-old-over-alleged-sexual-assault-on-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/fct-police-arrest-20-year-old-over-alleged-sexual-assault-on-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Arrest 20-Year-Old Over Alleged Sexual Assault on Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has apprehended a 20-year-old man, Nura Auwal, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Lugbe, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s father reported the incident to the Trademore Police Division on October 24, 2025, after the boy returned home in tears, revealing he had been assaulted by the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the suspect allegedly accosted the boy in a bush, assaulted him, and gave him \u20a6200, threatening to kill him if he told anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The police swiftly launched an investigation, tracked, and arrested the suspect in the Lugbe area. The victim received medical attention at the police hospital in Garki.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary findings suggest the suspect had previously engaged in similar acts, allegedly introduced to the practice by an acquaintance in Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>The police commissioner condemned the act, reaffirming the command&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy towards sexual and gender-based violence. The suspect will be charged to court upon completion of investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu\u00a0 The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has apprehended a 20-year-old man, Nura Auwal, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Lugbe, Abuja. The victim&#8217;s father reported the incident to the Trademore Police Division on October 24, 2025, after the boy returned home in tears, revealing he had been assaulted by the suspect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77879,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77877\/revisions\/77879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}