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Senegalese police officers have arrested a Ghanaian man suspected of “paedophilia, rape and corruption of minors” and accused of abusing several children.
Police officers arrested him on Wednesday in Jaxaay, a suburb of the capital Dakar, after they were alerted to an “imminent risk of a lynching” as the man was being attacked by an angry crowd accusing him of abuse.
The alleged victims, aged between seven and ten years, told the police that the suspect lured them under the pretext of playing video games and gave them small amounts of money or sweets in exchange for their silence.
The father of one of the alleged victims told the police he stumbled on his son “sitting on the suspect’s lap in a bedroom”.
“Questioned on the spot, the individual tried to justify this intimate physical contact by claiming he was teaching the child how to use a video game console,” the police added.
The police added that another victim “formally stated that she had been subjected to sexual penetration on the very day of the police intervention”.
“Investigations are ongoing to identify all of the children believed to be victims,” the police added.
The Senegalese Government is cracking down on child sex abuse and urges the public to report cases of child sexual abuse.
Cases of the abuse or murder of children, particularly by family members or within schools, including some Islamic educational establishments, have been frequently reported in the Senegalese press.
