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| How Seven Men Gang-raped 13-year-old Girl In Lagos, Doctor Narrates |
| 2022-03-10 |
| [SECURE.SAHARAREPORTERS] Mistura Shogunle, a medical doctor working at the Mirabel Centre, a sexual assault referral centre, on Wednesday, narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Shogunle testified at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed Fashola, for two counts of conspiracy and defilement of a child. But Fashola had pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges. Led in evidence by the state counsel, Mrs Olasunbo Abiodun-Muniru, the doctor said the minor came to the centre to seek medical attention on September 28, 2020, a day after she was allegedly defiled. "The client said that on September 27, 2020, which was a Sunday, her father sent her on an errand, and seven boys in the neighbourhood stopped her. "They dragged her into an uncompleted building, her mouth was covered with a handkerchief and they took turns to rape her through unprotected penile intercourse into her vagina," Shogunle said. The doctor said the survivor was calm and clinically stable during the medical examination and that she had no obvious physical injuries. "There were, however, significant genital findings. The labia majora was normal while the labia minora (inner lips of the genital) had a bruise. "The natural covering of the vagina, called the hymen, was absent. There were no significant anal findings. "The general findings are in keeping with recent blunt force penetration into her vagina which could have been caused by penile vagina penetration as declared verbally by the client," she said. The doctor, who is also a certified forensic sexual assault examiner, said the father of the defiled child informed her that he sent his daughter on an errand and expected her to return home early but instead, saw her with two men who came to his residence to tell him that his daughter had been defiled. According to NAN, Shogunle said the minor did not tell her the names of the men who allegedly defiled her. During cross-examination by defence counsel, Mr O.O. Ogunjimi, the witness said that she did not find any semen when she examined the survivor. "It was not the day the incident happened that the client visited the Mirabel Centre. "The client did not tell me whether she had taken her bath or not," Shogunle said. The prosecution said Fashola, alongside others on the lam, committed the offence at 8. 00 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2020, in an uncompleted building at Oluwashina Junction, Itire, Lagos State, NAN reports. "The defendant and his accomplices had unlawful sexual intercourse with the 13-year-old in the uncompleted building. "The offences contravene Sections 137 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015," Abiodun-Muniru said. Justice Rahman Oshodi adjourned the case until May 6 for the continuation of trial. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 While we're invading the young lady's privacy, I for one would like to know whether she'd previously been properly mutilated. I mean, it ain't four witnesses, but it would tend to suggest that the crime was an unintended wielding of wiles rather than a salacious seduction with malice aforethought. Surely if such were the case the death penalty must be out of the question, for Allah is merciful! Let her live, say I. Salaam! |
| Posted by: Mohammedan Morality Monitor8678 2022-03-10 18:07 |
| #6 How? Well now, that is a mystery. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-03-10 17:34 |
| #5 said boys, all the others described them as men It's an African islamic shit hole. Half the people probably think the boys are now men. |
| Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-10 10:05 |
| #4 ^ Agreed if found guilty. Then YES, But strung up 1st by their privates for 24 hours in the townsquare as an example and warning to others. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-03-10 09:34 |
| #3 Boys or men they should be strung up by the neck. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-03-10 09:07 |
| #2 The victim said boys, all the others described them as men. Without more information we can’t say why. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-10 08:31 |
| #1 Noted: A fw contradictions in the article? eg. boys vs. men and etc... |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-03-10 06:44 |