This
is one of the saddest stories you'll ever read in recent times. A
4-year-old Nursery one pupil identified as Choice narrated how she was
allegedly raped by the proprietor of her school.
According to a report on Punch, a four-year-old girl identified
only as Choice, has revealed how she was allegedly raped by the
proprietor of her school, Mr. Elias Oyeke.
The little girl told one of our correspondents that 42-year-old
Oyeke, who is the Proprietor of Victory International School, Mararba,
Nasarawa State, raped her on several occasions and then told her not to
tell anyone or she would get into trouble.
Choice, who is a nursery one pupil, said Oyeke told her that if her
parents found out that she had lost her virginity, she should tell them
that it was her male colleague who is also four-years-old that was
responsible.
The victim said, “Uncle Elias spread my legs, covered my mouth
and told me to shut up. He will (sic) put me on a chair and lap me and
he will start doing it. He will (sic) then give me sweets.”
The mother of the victim, Esther, said she started suspecting
something was amiss when her daughter insisted that she would not allow
anyone to bathe her sometime in February.
Esther said one day, she insisted that she would bathe her and that
was when she discovered severe injuries around Choice’s private parts,
adding that her daughter initially lied that it was her classmate,
Gabriel, that forcefully penetrated her and so she took her daughter to
the school the next day.
While fighting back tears, Esther said, “I usually dropped my
daughter at school around between 7am and 7.25am, before school resumed
proper and I always handed her over to Mr. Elias. However, after some
time, my daughter started behaving strangely as she prevented me from
bathing her.
“I didn’t know that she was acting under the instructions of
Elias. One day, I insisted that I must bathe her so I forced her legs
open and while I was washing there, she started crying and screaming in
pain.
“When her father got back, I opened her private part and saw
that it was wide and very red. I knew that she could not have sustained
such an injury at home so I took her to the school the next morning to
confront Mr. Elias. Elias began to shake but denied knowledge of what
happened.”
Esther added, “On getting to the pharmacy, we were told that it
was impossible for a four-year-old boy to do such damage to the girl’s
private part. At the pharmacy, I kept on asking my daughter who injured
her but she would just look at Elias and keep quiet.
“Then, I began to suspect that he knew something. I then took
my daughter away and asked her to tell me the truth. She finally
confessed that it was the school proprietor that had been raping her.
“Choice said Elias started by putting his fingers in her
vagina. She said anytime it was time for break, Elias would take her to
the school’s backyard, take off her pants, put her on a chair and start
having sex with her. He usually gave her sweets. After doing it, he
cleaned her up with a red handkerchief.”
It was learnt that the victim was subsequently taken to two hospitals where it was confirmed that she had been defiled.
A copy of the doctor’s report signed by Dr.Nwabueze Daniel of the Nyanya General Hospital, read in part,
“On vaginal examination of the four-year-old girl, there is a sign of
penetration as the hymen is not intact. It is a case of rape.”
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