A 15-year-old girl (names withheld) has been kidnapped, drugged and gang-raped by four men in the Igando area of Lagos State.
She was abducted on her way to the Saint John Catholic Church, Igando, in the company of her siblings when she was abducted.
According to her father, Tony, four men in a Toyota Camry car pretended to give her a lift, but drove her away to an unknown destination.
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Her assailants were said to have drugged and continuously raped her for the four days she was in captivity.
The victim, who was earlier declared missing by her parents, has however, been found following the raising of a search party by the family.
Though, the family reported a case of missing person at the Ikotun Police Station, it was a testimony by a church members, who saw when the girl was being kidnapped that gave clues to her whereabouts.
Speaking to Punch, Tony demanded justice his daughter, who just sat her West African Senior Secondary School Examination, WASSCE.
He said, “My other children said on their way to church, they greeted the people who were in the car and they asked where they were going and they said church. So, they said they should get in the car that they were also heading in the same direction.
“But after their eldest sister entered the car, they sped off and her other siblings started shouting, ‘Sister, where are you going to?’ Immediately, they wound up the glass and even when she was shouting for help, nobody could hear her.
“After searching for her throughout Monday and Tuesday, I reported a case of a missing person at the Ikotun Police Station and the search for her continued. We posted her picture on different WhatsApp groups until a church member saw the post on Friday and sent us the number plate of the car that was used to abduct my daughter.
“The church member said he saw when my daughter entered the car and he immediately wrote down the number plate of the car, but he didn’t know that she was abducted, adding that he saw the street where the car entered.
“We went to the street, Aiye Omere, Igando. When we got there, we saw the car and my daughter, where she was kept, drugged and was being raped by the four men from Monday till Friday between 4pm and 5pm when we got there.
“My daughter was not herself; the only thing she was able to tell her mother was that they kept drugging and raping her and whenever they were going out, they would drug her and then she would fall asleep until they returned.”
“After we found my daughter, we took her to the Igando General Hospital so she could be examined, but she was rejected. They said we should come back on Monday, but a family member told us to go to Mirabel Centre at Ikeja and not wait till Monday.
“I want justice for my daughter. I want all those involved in the abduction, drugging and raping of my daughter to be punished for the violence they committed against her,” he added.
One the suspects identified as Ifeanyi the Great, has however, been arrested been arrested alongside a classmate of the victim who lived on the street she was violated.
The incident was confirmed by the Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who said;
“A case of abduction of a 15-year-old girl who was drugged and raped was transferred from the Ikotun Police Station to the gender unit at the state police headquarters.
“The outcome of police investigation will determine the next line of action.”
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