Mother, 3 Daughters Ráped At Gunpoint

A gang of suspected rápists, weekend, ráped 3 daughters and their mother in Illah town, Oshimili North local government area of Delta State at gun point.

Spokesman of the state police command, ASP Lucky Uyabeme,said the victims were ambushed on their way to the farm, adding that one of the suspects, identified as Chuks had attempted to woo one of the victims, who is a 16-year-old SSII student of one of the secondary schools in the area, but failed.

He said upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to have invited his gang members who assisted him to rápe the girl, her mother and two sisters on that fateful day.

It was gathered that the rápists emerged from the thick forest and held the victims with AK 47s. They allegedly stripped them naked before defiling them on the bush path.

Uyabeme said that while the act lasted, passers-by who heard their shout rushed to the scene and were given the same treatment by the suspects who after threatening to kill them escaped with their victims’ wrappers and tools into the bush.

Luck however, ran out on one of the gang members as he was identified by the victims.

Some sympathizers who assisted the victims allegedly contacted the police where they insisted that one of the suspects was a known face in the community.

Leadership Sunday learnt that there have been reported cases of rápe in the area.In the last two months no fewer than eight under-aged girls were allegedly ráped in the community.

The police spokesman said that detectives acting on a tip-off swung into action and arrested the said Chuks who led them to the hideout of his gang members where they were arrested in Kwale with several AK47s recovered from them.

Only last Monday, an 18-year-old female student of Asaba Girls Grammar School was allegedly ráped by a group of suspected cultists who assaulted her on her way from the church after a vigil.