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Rape Victim Committed Suicide In Bayelsa State
 
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Thu, 24 Oct 2013   ||   Nigeria,
 

CEOAFRICA.com gathered that a girl committed suicide in Bayelsa State, after she was allegedly gang-raped by three boys.

It was disclosed by sources that Janet, 18, was gang-raped at gunpoint by the boys, who forced her into an uncompleted building last week, while she was on an errand for her elder sister.

Janet, a native of Oduali in Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State, committed suicide after she was devastated and sad about the incident.

A source also revealed that after the victim narrated her ordeal, her sister’s husband, who is a pastor, asked her to describe any of her attackers. She described one of them.The boy was traced to his house, but he had absconded. The pastor counselled her and promised to pursue the matter to a logical conclusion.”

It was gathered that, unknown to her guardian, the distraught girl had decided to take her own life. She left behind a suicide note before taken a poisonous substance known as Sniper.

She was discovered groaning in pain, and she died when she was taken to the  Gloryland Hospital.

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, confirmed the incident, saying the police have launched investigation into the rape charges filed by the family of the deceased.

 

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