How tailor defiles 7-year-old girl

A little girl has narrated to the police how her mother’s boss, a tailor, raped her in his shop after he called her to come and watch a film at night.

Her mother is an appren­tice to the tailor, Abubakar Is­maila (35), who is a tenant in her parents’ shop. The incident happened in the Gawu-Baba­ngida, Gurara Local Govern­ment, Niger State.

The girl, identified as Khadijat Musa, told the po­lice: “He (Abubakar) called me to come and watch a film in the night, closed the door, asked me to remove my pant; he climbed me; I screamed. He used his hands to cover my mouth and told me not to tell my mummy.”

The girl’s parents said they found their daughter bleed­ing. After her father, Malam Musa, threatened his daughter that there would be no Salah clothes for her unless she told him what happened to her, the little girl revealed to her father that Abubakar Ismaila raped her in the night when watch­ing a film.

Detectives attached to the Gawu-Babangida Police Sta­tion, under the Suleja Area Command, have promptly ar­rested Ismaila over the allega­tion of rape. Indeed, Ismaila has reportedly confessed to the of­fence, but said he did it to the girl only once.

Malam Musa, the girl’s fa­ther, told our correspondent that the suspect’s shop is where his wife was learning how to make clothes as an apprentice tailor. The shop he had been occupying, which belongs to them, had been free of charge to him for years, since he had been living with them.

“We have been living like together like a family; my wife feeds him always and there are a lot of women who are work­ing with him as apprentices. Why will my little daughter interest him, a father of three children and a Muslim, at a time when people are observ­ing their fasting?” Malam Musa lamented.