» Girl Gang Raped To Coma By 4 Secondary School Students «

A 16-year-old girl from Okpoitumo community in Ikwo
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Gladys (surname
withheld), is battling for survival after she was gang raped
to coma by four secondary schoolboys who invaded her
house about 10pm.
The four students, Jeremiah Odah, Dick Alo, Ofobuike Alo
and Obumnaeme, had broken into the girl’s house and
immediately demanded sex which she refused to oblige
them.
The boys from Galaxy Foundation Secondary School,
Ndiofoke Amagu, Ikwo in Ikwo Local Government Area then
beat her up. After rapping her to coma, the students carried
her out of her house and dropped her in a bush where she
was found after two days of search party by members of
the community.
She was immediately rushed to the Rural Improvement
Mission Hospital (RIMH), Ndegu Echara community in the
local government for medical attention.
According to the medical report conducted on the victim,
Gladys sustained serious internal injuries in her body
including private parts during the incident.
The matter was reported to the Ebonyi State Family Law
Centre, a special court saddled with the responsibility of
handling such case. The Chairman of the court, Mrs Edeh
Nwali, then petitioned the state Com-missioner of Police,
Peace Ibekwe Abdallah, urging her to use her good offices
and bring the perpetrators to book.
The four boys disappeared from their hostel and the
community after committing the crime. But the father of
the victim, identified simply as Mr Edward, appealed to the
court, human rights organisations and the government to
intervene in the matter.
He described his daughter as the breadwinner of the
family. Edward added that his family had been surviving on
her tailoring business.