The little shy girl said, “He told me to follow him into his room and when I got inside and waited to collect what he said he wanted to give me, he locked the door and told me to sit down.
“I told him I would stand but he dragged me down on his lap and started to rub my breasts. When I struggled to run away from his grip, he pinned me down with his legs and pulled down my pant. He put his…(she could not say the word) inside me. When he finished, I could not stand. Blood was coming out from my body but he helped me to clean it up. That was why I was late to where my mother sent me to.”
Bisi’s mother only suspected that something had happened to her daughter when the girl could not explain why she was one hour late from the errand she sent her.
Not knowing what her daughter had experienced, Bisi’s mother began to beat her. The girl then cried out and gave an account of what ‘Alfa’ had done to her. The mother promptly reported the case at the Ipaja Police Station.
Alfa was arrested and one week after, he was released on bail. Bisi’s mother called PUNCH correspondent saying, “They have released the man.
I asked them what they would do about the case but it is like they are not going to do anything. Imagine, a policewoman telling my daughter ‘You are a bad girl. You must have been enjoying it too.’ I felt like slapping the woman.”
Alfa was never prosecuted.
