61yr old arrested in Abia state for defiling 10yr old in an hotel for months! #photos.

A 61-year-old man, Timothy Onyeukwu, has been arrested by the Abia State Police Command for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl and keeping her as a s3x slave in a hotel in Aba.

Onyeukwu was alleged to have tricked the victim into the hotel with ice cream and N200 and held her hostage for months.

A Punch correspondent gathered that the suspect was apprehended after the police got a tip-off and swooped on him at the hideout.

The victim was said to have been rescued and reunited with her parents.


The suspect was among many others paraded at the command headquarters in Umuhaia, the Abia state capital, on Wednesday.


Onyeukwu, in his statement blamed the devil for the act, saying he was forced to sleep with the victim after she made series of demand from him.

The police said intelligence report gathered by operatives of the Central Police Station, Aba, led to the arrest of the suspect, adding that the victim had been taken to a hospital for treatment.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ogbonaya Nta, said the police also arrested one Ndubuisi Okpara for allegedly robbing some worshippers around Ariaria Market, Aba.


Nta said the suspect was apprehended by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, adding that a cut-to-size locally-made gun was recovered from him.