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General News of Friday, 5 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Rape victim burst into tears as policewoman asked if she enjoyed it

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A policewoman has been called out over the kind of questions she asked an 18-year old rape victim who had come to lodge a complaint at the Ilaje Police Station in Bariga, Lagos.

The rape victim is said to have been raped by a dispatch-rider who "threw N1000 in her face" after he was done with the act.

The issue was brought to social media by @yiudiee who wrote: "A delivery man went to pick up from a shop and raped the salesgirl because she was alone! Threw N1000 in her face and told her to go and sort herself out because he came in her".

Temitope Bukola, the boss of the salesgirl corroborated the story and also narrated their ordeal at the police station where they had gone to lodge a complaint.

Read her post below.

"This is the story of my staff and right now the dispatcher has absconded, we’ve been meeting dead ends everywhere and even LUTH said that they can’t administer PEP medication because we are pressing charges! They want us to drop the charges before she can be treated!

We haven’t been able to see the DPO of police for Ilaje Police Station because he’s always “busy” every time we’ve been there and according to them, the case hasn’t really been formally lodged if the DPO isn’t aware of it.

The policewomen at Sabo police station said and I quote “you sure say you no enjoy am?” to a traumatized 18yr old girl that had just been raped!

The policewomen at Ilaje police station in Bariga said and I quote “you sef fit be say you enjoy am because you suppose shout”

My girl started crying and I started crying because I was extremely angry and powerless!

They continued with “why you know bite am?” “You suppose give am mark for body”

All of these were said by the police to an 18yrs old girl that had just been raped.

The man in question is a 45+ six-foot man with lots of body mass. My girl is a small 18yrs old child.

She has been disowned by her father because of this matter even after we went and explained the situation by ourselves to the family.

She cries at the slightest things now!

When he was raping her and she was shouting, he told her that even if she shouts nobody can hear her and save her, after he was done, he gave her 1k and told her to clean herself up!

When she told me, I told her not to bath so I drove down there and took her to a hospital.

We ran some tests and took his semen from her because the bastard even came in her!

We have his semen which means we can run a DNA test if this was a normal country.

We have a doctors report that clearly explains that there was forceful penetration".