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, 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 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 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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