Three men gang rape 15 year old girl in Lagos

Three men have allegedly gang-raped a 15-
year old girl at the 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