{"id":78372,"date":"2025-11-08T20:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78372"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:39:17","slug":"police-arrest-man-for-defiling-9-year-old-girl-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/08\/police-arrest-man-for-defiling-9-year-old-girl-in-yobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Man for Defiling 9-Year-Old Girl in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Yobe State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl in the Nayi-Nawa area of Damaturu.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, said the suspect repeatedly lured the victim into a shop within the timber shed area, where he allegedly committed the act.<\/p>\n<p>The girl has been rescued and taken for medical examination, while the suspect remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkarim added that the case will be transferred to the Gender Unit of the State CID for further investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that two other suspects had been arrested for robbery and fraud in Damaturu and Bade LGAs, and would be charged to court soon.<\/p>\n<p>The command expressed concern over rising youth violence linked to farmer-herder clashes and drug abuse, assuring intensified surveillance to curb the trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Yobe State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl in the Nayi-Nawa area of Damaturu. Police spokesperson, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, said the suspect repeatedly lured the victim into a shop within the timber shed area, where he allegedly committed the act. The girl has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78372","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=78372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78374,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78372\/revisions\/78374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}