Police in Apac District are holding a 43-year-old man over allegations of defiling a 7-year-old stepdaughter.
The suspect identified as Patrick Omara, a businessman at Ayera Trading Centre in Awila Parish, Akokoro Sub-county, was arrested on Friday evening after he was caught sexually abusing the minor in his shop.
The victim is a P1 pupil at Awila Primary School.
Eyewitnesses said Omar committed the offense at the time when the mother of the victim, who is a fishmonger, had left home for the landing site to buy fish.
Maxwell Akora, a casual laborer at Sadeem Alkuwait, told investigators that the mother of the victim returned from the landing site and found the suspect locked up in the house before she raised alarm.
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