dreaded HIV/AIDS disease after she was allegedly raped by
her 25 year old step brother, Abdullahi Mohammed and his
friends at her father's house in Jahi district in Abuja.
According to Daily Trust , the girl's father and mother
separated and the father married another woman who
already had a son from a previous relationship.
Narrating what happened, the girl said her step brother
started raping her when she was 8 years old and each time
he raped her, he would threaten to kill her if she told their
father.
“My father married my step mother who has a son. We were
living peacefully until one night when I was lying on the floor
and Brother Abdullahi came and started fondling my
breasts. When he didn’t see breasts, he said he would suck
them until they came out. When I objected, he raped me. He
used a handkerchief to wipe off the blood that was coming
out from my private part. He threatened to slash my throat if
I told anybody. I didn’t tell anybody and it continued. He
raped me every night; and sometimes he brought his
friends, especially Ahmed along with him to rape me,” she
said.
The girl said she feared she would be killed by her step
brother or suffer maltreatment from her step mother if she
told anyone what he was doing to her.
She was diagnosed with AIDS after her father took her to the
hospital following her constant poor state of health. Doctors
carried out various test on her and discovered she had HIV/
AIDS. It was when her father, who was very angry, sought
to know how she contracted the deadly disease, that she
revealed that her step brother, Abdullahi and his friends, had
raped her for four years. Subsequently, her father reported
the case to the police at Mabushi and the two men were
arrested. They confessed to the crime.
Police reports however shows that the case took a new twist
when the two suspects were taken to the hospital and their
medical reports came out HIV negative. It is been
speculated that the girl's mother was HIV positive when she
had her.
“She was not tested when she was an infant, and maybe
she was HIV positive from birth. Her half brother confessed
that he was the first man to have had sex with the victim
and how she got that HIV still remains a mystery,” a police
source said.
When contacted, the Mabushi divisional police officer, Chief
Superintendent Ayobami Surajudeen confirmed the story
and said that having gotten medical reports, the case would
now be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department
Source: Daily Trust
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