Three young men are currently cooling their heels in
one of the dreaded cells of the State criminal Investigation Department,
(SCID)
Yaba, Panti for allegedly gang raping a 16-year-old virgin (names withheld) in
Orile area of Lagos while on her way from school. The suspects identified
as Sunday Simeon, 18, from Akwa Ibom state; Adebayo Omoniyi 18, from Ondo
state; Nnaemeka Uzodinma 24, from Imo state and Seyi (surname unknown) who is
currently on the run attacked, abducted and gang raped the victim who is a JSS
3 student on June 23, 2015.
Vanguard learnt that the suspects
attacked the victim after one of the suspects; Adebayo took the victim’s phone
around Arikeuyo junction while returning from school at Orile. It was
gathered that while the victim was struggling with Adebayo, his
partners-in-crime dragged her into a tricycle and rode her to no 15 Unity Close
in Orile Iganmu. When they got there they took off her school uniform and raped
her one after the other starting from Adebayo.
Vanguard gathered that after
successfully raping the victim, one of the suspects Adebayo suggested to the
other gang members that they kill the victim and throw her corpse into the
canal so that she won’t expose them. But another member of the gang, Seyi
pleaded with them to be cautious with Adebayo’s advice, instead advice his
colleagues to threaten the victim rather than kill her.
Hearkening to Seyi’s advice the
suspects threatened to kill her with a cutlass if she ever mentioned to anyone
what they did to her or that they gang raped her. Later they collected her
phone number and rode her back to Alako area in Orile while Sunday gave her
N100 to board a commercial vehicle home. According to a source close to
the family who spoke to Vanguard on the condition of anonymity said:
“when the victim came back from school it was obvious that something was wrong
as she was walking with difficulty, her uniform torn, she was bleeding because
she sustained severe bruises all over her vagina”.
“Her parents who saw her torn
uniform and noticed the way she walked asked what had happened to her and she
told them how she was attacked by four men who raped her on her way back from
school. Immediately her father took her to Orile Divisional Police station
to report the incidence. Fortunately while she was at the station with
her father the suspects kept calling and threatening to kill her if she told
anyone what they did to her”.
Meanwhile the victim was taken to
Ifelodun Ajeromi Government Hospital where she received treatment after a
series of test were carried out on her which confirmed that he has been sexually
abused. Vanguard learnt that the police advised her to lure the suspects
who were calling and threatening her by telling them that she was coming to see
them again after school the next day. Unknown to them that it was a trap and
that her parents had notified the police, they bought the idea.
At the agreed time she went there
with the detectives who succeeded in arresting one of the suspect’s Nnaemeka
Uzodinma, his arrest eventually led to the arrest of two others. It was
gathered that the victim’s blood stained pant and the cutlass which was used to
threaten her have been recovered from the suspects one-room apartment in
Orile. The suspects who are currently being investigated at the State
Criminal Investigation Department, yaba, Panti would soon be arraigned in
court.
Source: Vanguard Newspaper.
Source: Vanguard Newspaper.
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