Community Seeks Justice For Kidnapped, Raped Minor

Angry residents of Ikot Ataku and Ikot Abia communities successful Eket section authorities country of Akwa Ibom State are yet to travel to presumption with a chilly and mind-bugling quality of a 14-year-old insignificant (name withheld), who was kidnapped and raped by a suspected ritualist connected her mode backmost from school.

The Junior Secondary School (JSS) pupil of St. Francis Secondary School (SFSS), Ikot Ataku successful Eket LGA, an orphan, according to her aunt, Madam Grace Udo, whom she presently stays with aft losing some parents, disclosed that the unfortunate has code impairment and could hardly shout, which could person accounted for her inability to rise the alarm for rescue astatine the clip the assailant seized her.

She blamed the dense rainfall that fell connected that fateful day, combined with her dilatory code that drowned immoderate alarm she could person mustered the courageousness to raise, arsenic large factors that prevented benignant neighbours from rallying to help.

“Because of her dilatory speech, I could hardly perceive what took her that agelong to instrumentality location aft school. I had thought initially that she mightiness person been held up by the rain, not knowing she was seized and taken for rape by an chartless transgression she lone described arsenic “fair successful complexion and averagely tall.”

“At first, I couldn’t recognize her precise well. It was aft past that I discovered the miss was raped and has superior coiled connected her backstage portion due to the fact that she couldn’t beryllium well.

“When she narrated her ordeal, I couldn’t carnivore it, hence I went to find out. I had to strain my ears to recognize that a man, just successful completion carried her connected his shoulder, and entered the adjacent bush, and raped her repeatedly.

“When I asked if she knew and had met the idiosyncratic before, she responded that she doesn’t cognize him but tin place him if seen anywhere,” Grace explained.

The incidental was reported astatine Eket Police Division by one, Mrs. Endurance Etim Robert, and the unfortunate was referred to Immanuel Hospital, Eket town, for exigency treatment, but with nary aesculapian attraction due to the fact that of funds.

It was gathered that the miss was aboriginal attended to by the medics astatine the peculiar trauma conception of the infirmary – Agape Centre (AC), specifically designed for specified emergencies.

According to the manager of the Agape Center, Mrs. Mfonkan Ukemeabasi Henry, who admitted the miss earlier being directed to the doctor, “the victim’s backstage portion has been earnestly damaged, bruised and expanded arsenic if she conscionable gave birth,” stressing the request to “conduct respective aesculapian examinations including pregnancy, HIV and different tests.”

Calling connected the Police to behaviour applicable investigations to food retired the culprit with a presumption to extracting justness for the heinous crime, the aunt recalled that she took custody of the unfortunate astatine the decease of her parents to enactment successful her location astatine Ikot Abia colony successful Eket LGA, wherever she traversed the assemblage roadworthy to schoolhouse astatine the neighbouring Ikot Ataku.

Urging the authorities and different acrophobic non-state actors, including the Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), to travel into the matter, she wondered wherefore a antheral could beryllium that wicked to rape an underage girl, cashing successful connected her predicament.

Asuquo Issac Atta, 1 of the aggravated section residents of Ikot Ataku, called for a vigilant cordon astir the vicinity, possibly the assailant could inactive beryllium lurking astir for much prey on the lonely and isolated assemblage road.