UPDATE: LAGOS POLICE RECEIVE TEST RESULTS OF TEEENAGER ALLEGEDLY RAPED BY OFFICER

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The result of a medical examination conducted on the 17-year-old girl allegedly raped by a police officer at the Area H Command in the Ogudu area of the state has been concluded.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the public relations officer for the state police, verified this on Friday.

According to Hundeyin, the results have been given to the police so they can continue their investigation into the incident.

“The test result,” he stated. The police have been tasked with handling it, and their investigation is still ongoing.

Hundeyin who did not disclose the outcome of the test added, “There will be another update in no distant time.”

I t was showed that the test was handled at the Mirabel Centre.

The police image maker revealed that the officer, whose identity was not yet disclosed, had been placed under arrest in a statement on Sunday.

The girl reportedly claimed on Saturday that she had been sexually assaulted within the Ogudu Police Station in the state’s Ojota region.

The teenager, her grandmother, and her siblings were returning from Ikeja on June 16 when her phone was snatched by “one chance” robbers. It was reported that the officer made a promise to assist the teenager in getting her phone back.

At her shop, the teenager was telling her mother about her ordeal when the suspect allegedly overheard and offered to assist find her missing phone and take her statement.

The victim added that the suspect performed the alleged crime even though she was invited inside his office under the pretence of collecting her phone.

The victim’s mother, Aramide Olupona, revealed that her daughter started to bleed a day after the attack and was brought to the Mirabel Centre. She also mentioned that the incident was reported to the police.

Olupona, however, accused the police of trying to bury the case, saying, “The suspect’s wife and the rest of his family have come to my shop to plead with me saying he would soon retire, but what about my daughter who was raped? Is it because I am a poor woman?”

In response, Hundeyin stated that the claimed behaviour was against the police code of conduct. As a result, she gave the public and the victim’s family the reassurance that the occurrence was not being concealed.

He said, “The Lagos State Police Command has placed under arrest one of its personnel accused of defiling a 17-year-old girl. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Adegoke Fayoade, has directed a full-scale and thorough investigation into the allegation.

“The command assures the public that there is no attempt at a cover-up as such hideous acts are at variance with the code of conduct and professional ethics of the Nigeria Police Force.

“To this end, CP Fayoade once again assures Nigerians that the officer will be dealt with under police regulations and the law if found culpable.”