3 Young Men In Police Net For Gang Raping 16-Year-Old Virgin In Lagos

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, 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.