Four 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.
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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.
It was 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.