Ikorodu area of Lagos, as the police are alleged to be
threatening the victim's parents to settle the matter out of
court.
The state government had earlier blamed the police for
frustrating rape cases by threatening victims and their families
to withdraw their cases. Two of the men have been arraigned
at one of the newly established Family Courts in Ikeja for
allegedly raping the girl.
The suspects are being tried by the Lagos State Office of the
Public Defender, OPD, while the third suspect is still at large.
It was learnt that the victim was lured to No 23, Fola
Mustapha Street, in Ajegunle area of Ikorodu by her
classmate (name withheld), a 16-year old girl, on the pretext
that she wanted to return a text book which she had earlier
borrowed from the victim.
The victim was deceived by her friend who had already
arranged with the three suspected rapists to have sex with her
forcefully. The three suspects; Yusuf Mohammed, Rasheed
Oyedepo and Tunde were alleged to have inflicted bodily
injury on the girl (name withheld).
It was gathered that the raped girl's friend deliberately
delayed her classmate for hours and enabled the heinous crime
by putting on the generator set, on the pretext that she needed
to charge her phone.
According to the OPD , the victim wanted to take her leave in
annoyance when it was getting too late for the her to return
home, but her friend told her to wait for a while before taking
her to a new room where she was raped in turns by the gang.
While taking turns to rape the girl, the noise from the
generator and the music they were playing prevented the
people outside from hearing the screaming and wailing of the
girl. On getting home in a bad condition, the girl's mother
took her to a private clinic for medical attention.
She was taken to Ikorodu General Hospital for proper medical
treatment, where it was discovered that her womb had been
tampered with at the private clinic.
The victim was in a critical condition as she was admitted in
the hospital for three days while undergoing blood
transfusion. A new twist has, however, been added to the
story as the police has transferred the suspects, whose cases
are already in court, to the State Criminal Investigation
Department, SCID, Panti for investigation, an act the OPD
described as unlawful.
It was gathered that the police had gone to the girl's family
threatening the mother for taking the case to OPD, after which
they transferred the suspects to SCID, Panti. It would be
recalled that the government has established a clinic where
DNA tests will be conducted on rape victims and suspected
rapists to enhance prosecution of the cases.
Source: National Mirror
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