According to preliminary police findings, the suspect had reportedly committed the offence several times at his residence in the school staff quarters where has been living with the victim. Agnes Anyu, the Terego District Police Commander, says that they have charged the suspect rape, defilement and torture.
Tom Amayo,
the headteacher of Yole primary school in Katrini Sub County in Terego
district is in detention on accusations of defiling and battering his own
daughter. Amayo was picked up on Tuesday by officers from Katrini police post
following a tip-off by the victim’s uncles where she had sought refuge.
According to
preliminary police findings, the suspect had reportedly committed the offence
several times at his residence in the staff quarters where has been
living with the victim. Agnes Anyu, the Terego District Police Commander, says
that they have charged the suspect rape, defilement and torture.
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Geoffrey Aziz, a member of Yole Primary School Management committee told URN
that they are in the process of holding an emergency meeting following the
arrest of the headteacher to forge away
forward to allow the school to run normally.
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The incident has puzzled staff and pupils of Yole primary school where the
victim has been attending school. Moses Maku, a resident and elder in Katrini Sub County, says such acts
are not only degrading morality in society but are an indication of a doomed
society.
“Acts like this one have never been in our society and for us to begin
witnessing a father defiling his own daughter is an indication of a rotting
society, which must be condemned in the strongest manner possible,” said
Maku.
Candia Stephen
Freelancer