UMUAHIA-THE Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has arrested a 29-year-old man, Domunachi Osu, for allegedly raping and infecting an 8-year-old girl, (names withheld) with HIV.
The Command's Public Relations Officer, Mr. Soji Alabi who briefed newsmen on behalf of the Commandant, Alhaji Dauda Mungadi, said the suspect, said to have been on the run since last year was arrested following a tip-off from the victim's mother.
Alabi said the suspect, a married man and trader from Delta State, was living in the same area with victim, who was staying with her grandmother in Ikwuano Local Government Area of the state.
Osu was said to have committed the offence when everybody in the compound had gone to the farm and threatened to kill the girl if she told anyone of the heinous act.
Alabi said that the suspect would be taken to court immediately investigations were concluded.
In her account, the victim's mother, Mrs. Amarachi Uche, said she had gone back to school in Abuja when her daughter's series of illnesses were reported to her and that it took the intervention of a family friend before her daughter could open up on what happened.
The victim who narrated her ordeal in Igbo language said she was raped. The suspect also admitted that he was guilty of the offence, saying he had been living with HIV for over three years.

Pedofiles everywhere, may God punish those that he will punish.