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Doctor Narrates How Seven Men Gang-Raped A 13-Year-Old Girl

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Doctor Narrates How Seven Men Gang-Raped A 13-Year-Old Girl

Mistura Shogunle, a medical practitioner at the Mirabel Centre, a sexual assault referral center, described how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighborhood before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.

Shogunle spoke at the trial of Rasheed Fashola, a 20-year-old fashion designer accused of two counts of conspiracy and child defilement.

Fashola, on the other hand, has pleaded not guilty to the accusations.

The doctor, who was led in evidence by the state counsel, Mrs. Olasunbo Abiodun-Muniru, said the girl came to the hospital on September 28, 2020, a day after she was allegedly violated, to seek medical assistance.

Shogunle said, “The client said that on September 27, 2020, which was a Sunday, her father sent her on an errand, and seven boys in the neighbourhood stopped her.

“They dragged her into an uncompleted building, her mouth was covered with a handkerchief and they took turns to rape her through unprotected penile intercourse into her vagina.”

During the medical checkup, the survivor was calm and clinically stable, according to the doctor, and she had no visible physical injuries.

Doctor Narrates How Seven Men Gang-Raped A 13-Year-Old Girl

The doctor said, “There were, however, significant genital findings. The labia majora was normal while the labia minora (inner lips of the genital) had a bruise.

“The natural covering of the vagina, called the hymen, was absent. There were no significant anal findings.

“The general findings are in keeping with recent blunt force penetration into her vagina which could have been caused by penile vagina penetration as declared verbally by the client.”

The soiled child’s father, who is also a professional forensic sexual assault examiner, told the doctor that he sent his daughter out on an errand and expected her to come back home early, but instead saw her with two men who returned to his house to notify him that his child had been raped.

Shogunle told NAN that the minor refused to give her the identities of the guys who reportedly defiled her.

Upon cross-examination of the minor, the doctor said she didn’t find any semen.

She said, “It was not the day the incident happened that the client visited the Mirabel Centre.

“The client did not tell me whether she had taken her bath or not.”

According to the prosecutor, Fashola and his partners committed the crime on September 27, 2020, at 8:00 p.m., in an uncompleted building at Oluwashina Junction, Itire, Lagos State, NAN reported.

She said, “The defendant and his accomplices had unlawful sexual intercourse with the 13-year-old in the uncompleted building.

“The offenses contravene Sections 137 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”

The case was adjourned to May 6 for the continuation of the trial by Justice Rahman Oshodi.

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