A
12-year-old girl (name withheld) has contracted the 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
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