A 12-year-old student, Janet Fakeye, has been raped to death by an ex-convict Mercy Orija, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The deceased was a Junior Secondary School pupil at the Army Day Secondary School, Alamala, Abeokuta.
The suspect reportedly went into hiding shortly after he committed the offence at Fehintoluwa Community Development Association in Idiya, Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of the state.
It was learned tgat Orija, who was convicted for assaulting a Point-of-Sale operator in the community last year, allegedly raped the minor shortly after he was released from prison.
Janet was reportedly dragged into a house by the suspect while she was going back home from where she went to buy soap to wash her school uniform on Wednesday.
The suspect was said to have used his family house in the same community to commit the crime.
Orija allegedly dumped her body in another building beside his family house and fled the scene.
The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said his men had begun searching for the suspect.
“It is true that we are looking for him. The suspect is an ex-convict who was just released from prison. He would soon be arrested and made to face justice,” Mr Oyeyemi said.
