According to a close family source, who does not want to be quoted, the girl told her parents that the policeman had threatened her against telling anyone about the affair. The source said the threat made her keep the secret until few days ago when she complained to her mother about some symptoms, which after thorough investigation led to her confession of being pregnant.
According to reports, the policeman initially denied the allegation and was supported by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, which made the victim's parents to petition a human rights group and the state Commissioner of Police.
After the petition, the policeman was said to have accepted responsibility and agreed to take care of the girl till delivery.
He promised to be giving the girl's family N20,000 monthly for the girl's up keep, which the father turned down, demanding N300,000 to enable him take proper care of her daughter till delivery.
In the girl's statement to her parents, she was quoted as saying that the policeman ordered her at gunpoint to have sex with him on her way from school, a claim the suspect denied, saying the action was carried out mutually between them and not by force.
