has confirmed that an 18-year-old girl committed
suicide after a gang rape by three unidentified men.
The Spokesman of the state Police Command, Mr
Alex Akhigbe, told newsmen in Yenagoa that the girl
killed herself in Amarata, Yenagoa, Local Government
Area of Bayelsa, southern Nigeria.
'I believe the deceased decided to hang herself due
to the attendant shame and stigmatisation she
experienced after the rape incident,' Akhigbe said.
He said that the command had launched
investigation into the alleged rape charges filed by
the deceased family.
One of the family members, who pleaded for
anonymity, said that the girl was reportedly gang-
raped last week.
She was on errand for her elder sister and was
allegedly raped at gun point by three boys who
forced her into an uncompleted building.
The girl was devastated after the incident.
After some days she told her sister and the husband
her experience. Her sister's husband who is a Pastor,
asked her to describe any of her attacker.
She described one of the boys, but the boy could not
be found; I believe Pastor counselled her (the victim).
The pastor has promised to pursue the matter to the
court.
She swallowed a poisonous substance known as
Sniper and she was discovered while groaning in
pains and rushed to GloryLand Hospital.
The victim was discovered through the note she
dropped before taking the poisonous substance, the
source said. It's high time we join our hand together and fight against this indiscipline act, because we don't know who is going to be the next victim of this heartless people let opt out and condemn them and their act before it go beyond hand....
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