The Public Relations Officer, Anambra State Police Command, Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga says the suspected rapist of a fifteen-year-old girl at Ado Girls Secondary School, Onitsha, Mr. James Innoma will appear in court on twenty nineth of March, 2024.

The Police Public Relations Officer disclosed this when the Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh alongside the Chairman Committee on Education at the Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr. Emmanuel Okpalaeke paid a courtesy call to the State Criminal Investigation Department to get update on the rape case.

Mr. Ikenga thanked the Anambra State Ministry of Education for being proactive in reporting the case to the first responder, the Inland Police station, Onitsha when the incident happened before it was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department where investigation is still ongoing.

He also appreciated Governor Chukwuma Soludo for providing a special court through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare where gender-based violence cases are tried.

He noted that during interrogation, the victim revealed that she was sent on errand by her parents, when the suspect, Mr. Innoma took advantage of her.

Mr. Ikenga further said that when the police received the case, they took the victim to the hospital where series of tests were conducted which established that indeed there was defilement.

The suspect, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, during interrogation confessed to the crime.