The police in State’s Leer County said they are holding a 9-year-old boy for defiling a 4-year-old girl in Juong Payam.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Wednesday, Kuony Chan Kulang, the deputy director of police in the county, confirmed the incident which he said happened on Tuesday evening.
“A 4-year-old girl child was defiled by a 9-year-old child boy. We arrested the small boy and he is currently in custody at the county headquarters in Leer. We are investigating the case,” he explained. The boy was arrested on Tuesday after we were informed that there was a rape case in Juong Payam and we sent police personnel to arrest him at his family home.”
For the last few months, the Government of Unity State, and national justice ministry, and the UNMISS Department of Rule of Law established a mobile court in Unity State to try a backlog of rape, murder, and other cases.