A 12-year-old girl who resides in Jahi district with her parents has
tested HIV positive after she confessed that her 25-year-old half
brother, Abdullahi Mohammed and his friends have been repeatedly raping
her for the past four years.
She told City News that her mother
was divorced when she was just born and she has been living with her
father in a two-bedroom public apartment (face-me-I-face-you) in Jahi
district. She said her half 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 handling 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 Molest me,” she recounted.
She said she couldn’t tell anyone because she was afraid that he may carry out his threats.
She
was also afraid that she could be maltreated by her step mother. Our
reporter gathered that during holidays, the girl continuously fell sick;
hence her father was advised by neighbours to take her to the hospital.
When he did, she was diagnosed with HIV.
It was when her
father, who was very angry, sought to know how she contracted the deadly
disease that she revealed that her Abdullahi and his friends, had
raped her for four years. Subsequently, her father reported the case to the police at Mabushi, following which the two men were arrested. They confessed to the crime.
A
police source told our reporter that the case took another twist when
the two suspects were taken to the hospital and their medical reports
came out HIV negative.
Speculations therefore emerged that her
mother was HIV positive when she had her, the reason why she was sent
away by her husband. “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,” the 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. He advised parents to be watchful when they
bring adult males to share bed with their little daughters.