{"id":206206,"date":"2020-04-01T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206206"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:00:03","slug":"shock-in-edo-community-as-82-year-village-head-allegedly-defiles-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206206","title":{"rendered":"Shock in Edo community as 82-year village head allegedly defiles teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" style=\"text-align:left;\">There was tension in Abudu community, the headquarters of Orhionmwon local government area on Monday following accusations that the Odionwere (village head), Pa, Sunday Izekor, sexually assaulted a Junior Secondary School (JSS) class two student, simply identified as Gift.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-43\" style=\"margin:8pxautodisplay:block; clear:both; text-align:left;\">Pa Izekor, 82, was said to have sexually abused the teenage girl, 13, at different times before it became public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Gift was said to have lost her parents some years ago and is currently being accommodated by her uncle.<\/p>\n<p>Outraged indigenes mainly youths reportedly took turns to rain curses on the Odionwere, even as many descended on him over the alleged abominable act.<\/p>\n<p>It took the intervention of operatives of Abudu Police division to halt the situation from degenerating into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The police were said to have rescued the community leader from the angry mob and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble reportedly started for the village head after a friend of the teenager who was in the know of the defilement mocked the 13-year-old over the community leader\u2019s sexual assault on her.<\/p>\n<p>One of the youths, who is a state government appointee told DAILY POST that the development drew the attention of Gift\u2019s uncle and neighbours who questioned the rationale behind her friend\u2019s \u201cprank\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further inquiry, gift opened up that the traditional ruler has been having carnal knowledge of her since early 2019.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the State police spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, on a telephone interview said he was yet to be briefed on the development.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"left\" id=\"mvp-content-bot\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was tension in Abudu community, the headquarters of Orhionmwon local government area on Monday following accusations that the Odionwere (village head), Pa, Sunday Izekor, sexually assaulted a Junior Secondary School (JSS) class two student, simply identified as Gift. Pa Izekor, 82, was said to have sexually abused the teenage girl, 13, at different times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,37,530,406],"class_list":["post-206206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-boko-haram","tag-edo","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}