Family Friend Rapes, Impregnates 15-Year-Old Girl (PHOTO)
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The two families who were once very friendly are now said to be at loggerheads over this incident.
The victim, a pupil of Meiran Community Junior Secondary School, is presently carrying a 7-months-old pregnancy as a result of the alleged rape.
According to the young lady, who, reports say, was a virgin prior to the incident, she was sent by her mother, to go and get a plastic drum borrowed from her by Adejumo when she got raped.
She said, “When I got there, he (Adejumo) came to meet me. When I was about to carry the drum, he held me tightly. As I was about shouting, he closed my mouth with clothes and tied me with ropes.
“After doing those things, he had sex with me. Because I have not had sex before, I had bruises and blood covered my private part. After the rape, he still left me tied but he removed the pieces of clothes in my mouth.
“I started crying but could not cry aloud. I asked what I had done to make him behave like that.
“After a long silence, he said I should not tell anybody what happened and that if I did, I would die after seven days. He then untied me after using the pieces of clothes to clean the blood in my private part.
“When I got home, my mother was angry that I overstayed but I could not tell her what happened to me because I was afraid I might die.” She said the secret finally came out when she started falling ill and her family took her to the hospital where the bubble finally burst.
She continued her narration saying, “My mother started suspecting I was pregnant. She called me and asked, ‘are you pregnant? Who made you pregnant?’ It was then I told her that Adejumo raped me and warned me not to tell anybody, else, I would die.
“My mother took me to some hospitals where they conducted tests and said I was pregnant. By that time, it was four months. The doctors advised that because of my age and weight, it would be suicidal to terminate the foetus.
“My parents reported the matter at Meiran Police Division and Adejumo was arrested. At the station, he promised to take care of me and the pregnancy. But since he had been released from the station, he had abandoned me.” According to the victim’s mother: “If any soothsayer had told me Adejumo would do this to my family, I would not have believed it. As if he has done a noble thing, he had been boasting about that we could not do him anything and that he would show us that we were not his match.
I am appealing to the relevant authorities to intervene in this matter and bring him to justice. “He has wrecked my daughter’s future and people in the neighbourhood have turned her into a laughing stock for something the culprit should be in jail by now.” However, the 40-year-old Adejumo admitted having carnal knowledge of the victim but denies impregnating her.
He said, “I did not do it intentionally. As I speak to you, I cannot understand what happened to me that day. Since that time, I have remained unstable.
“As for the pregnancy, I do not believe that action led to it. From the scan and tests, we were made to believe she is seven months pregnant but I had sex with her about six months ago.”
He said he took responsibility for the pregnancy when he was arrested by the police so as to avoid problems.
Adejumo continued saying though he is not ready to take further steps, he would not mind marrying the victim if her parents allowed. The story was confirmed by the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos Police Command, Damasus Ozani, who said, “I got across to the station and they confirmed the story that a 40-year-old man confessed to raping a 15-year-old girl.
“The station investigated the matter to the point that when it was time to go to court, the father of the girl, said he had agreed with Adejumo to take care of the girl and the pregnancy. The decision was not with the police consent.” Ozani said since then, they had not come to the station to enable the police to take the matter to the court.
“Rape is a case the police will not be compromised. It is a serious matter and the police do not joke with it. It is a matter against the state. It is just the attitude of some of our parents, who maybe because of cultural beliefs, illiteracy or otherwise, that treat such matter without the needed seriousness,” he said.
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