Six young boys have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra state.
The suspects, Afam Ezenwa,
Chijioke Ifeanyi, Collins Obadom, Abuchi Okechukwu, Chima Obiekezie, and Sunday
Okafor, were arrested following a video that went viral on the internet.
Confirming the arrest, the
State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, said the case
had been transferred to the state criminal investigative department of the
police in Awka, where they would be charged in court for their crime.
She said the victim had been
rescued.
Interacting with the victim and
her parents in her office, Obinabo decried the high rate of crimes among
delinquents and called on parents and guardians to stop spoiling their children
by pampering them.
She reassured that Governor
Chukwuma Soludo-led administration would not tolerate any form of crime in the
state, noting that justice would take its full course.
Narrating her ordeal, the
victim said, “It all happened when I visited my maternal home in Oramaetiti and
was ambushed by a group of boys who took me to a room and took turns in
defiling me.
“Despite my plea, the young
boys, who were between the ages of 16, 17, 18, 20, and 27 years old
respectively, did not stop but continued while one of them was filming me
during the act,” she said.
The visibly devastated rape
survivor further revealed that she was attacked by another set of boys after
she was rescued by neighbours who were attracted by her scream for help.
“After I was rescued and was on
my way home, I was accosted by another set of boys who first harassed me and
forced me to pull down my underwear and give it to them. I gave it to them
because they threatened to kill me.”
However, she revealed that she
was later taken home to her parents by a good Samaritan.
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