The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a man named David Gaius for allegedly raping his stepdaughter.
The man is now being investigated by police on three counts of raping his stepdaughter.
According to the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, Gaius, who resides in Unguwan Prison in the Dirma village of Dumne, Song Local Government Area, admitted to committing the offence.
The man blamed the devil for his three sexual encounters with the girl. He claimed that the devil tricked him into the act while he was drunk.
He also admitted to using an attraction charm on the girl. He claimed he placed the charm in the meat that his victim and he ate, to attract her.
He said he first raped the girl in 2020 when she was 14 years old while living in the same house with his wife and other children after the other members of the family had slept.
He added that when he did it the third time recently, his wife caught him red-handed, but that he lied to her that a native doctor asked him to rape a little girl.
He denied using a white handkerchief to clean his victim’s private part for ritual purposes as alleged by the girl, adding that he did not rape her for ritual purposes.