Three young men are currently chilling 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 reported 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, and instead adviced 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:-
“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 v*gina”.
“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 tests were carried out
on her which confirmed that she has been sexually abused.
It was 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.
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