18 Old Girl Raped To Death In Taraba State
An 18 year old girl has been gang raped to death in Taraba state. The girl was raped to death last Saturday in Yarro local government area.
He body was found behind a mountain in Jalingo, the state capital.
A family member said she was waylaid by some persons, on her way from the family home in Bishop Court in Jalingo, to see a relative in Yarro Local Government Area.
Spokesman of the state police command, Usman Abdullahi said police had evacuated her body to a hospital.
According to him, she was confirmed raped by doctors after an autopsy in the hospital.
Detectives had been deployed to track the rapists.
On Sunday morning when a little boy who was hawking firewood discovered her dead body by the roadside, ran back to inform his parents of what he saw.
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“When the boy’s parents and other residents moved to the scene they discovered it was the lifeless body of my younger sister Wassa,” he said.
“We did not touch her, we invited the security personnel operating in the area to see and advise us on what to do.
“The security men, consisting of the military and the police, came and advised us to convey the corpse to the mortuary and allow for a security investigation.
Mr Solomon said medical autopsy revealed that the victim was gang-raped before she was eventually killed.
“We took the corpse to Federal medical centre Jalingo and the doctor after conducting the needed test, he confirmed to us that the victim was gang-raped before she was eventually killed.
“I wish to appeal to the security operatives to deepen their investigation so that the perpetrators would be brought to justice,” he said.
The spokesperson of the police in the state, Usman Abdullahi, confirmed the report to PREMIUM TIMES during a telephone interview.
He said the police have evacuated the corpse of the lady to the hospital where it was confirmed that she was raped, after an autopsy.
Mr Abdullahi said the commissioner of police has directed that the matter is thoroughly investigated and that the criminals are arrested.
The commissioner has directed men of the CIB to investigate the matter and ensure that the criminals are unveiled,” he said.
