It was a sad end for 22 year-old Deborah
(surname withheld), a 300-level student of
Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, Nigeria,
after the girl, said to be a virgin, was r*ped to
death by yet to be identified persons in Benin-
City, Edo State capital. The rapists cut her throat
after the dastardly act. The family of the
deceased has appealed to the Police Command in
Edo State to fish out the culprits and bring them
to book. Deborah was said to have been r*ped between 12
midnight and 1 a.m after she left hospital and
decided to see one of her friends at Upper
Adesuwa. It was then the rapists allegedly caught
up with her. Meanwhile, Edo State Police
Commissioner, Mr Funso Adebanjo, said the
command was investigating the matter. An elder
sister of the deceased, Jean, who spoke to
Sunday Vanguard, lamented that her sister was
killed after she was r*ped.
She narrated the story: “On Thursday, she came
to my house saying she needed some money but
I could not give her.
She told me she was leaving but I did not know
that she had a plan to sell her Blackberry phone. I
think while she was saying that, someone had
compassion and asked why she would want to
sell her Blackberry for that cheap price. So the
person removed his SIM card in one of his phones
and gave her the phone. But, somehow, she lost
the phone and she had no means of
communicating with anybody.
“On Friday morning, she was not feeling fine, so
she went to hospital. I got a call from a doctor
who said my sister came there without a family
member and that she needed blood. “So I got in
touch with my mother; we looked for money and
rushed to the hospital. But when we got to the
hospital, my sister was shouting and disturbing;
so they said we should take her to a church.
“My mother took her to a church. Later that
night, she told my mother she wanted to go back
to the hospital and she left. I did not know she
went to hospital that night and, when she got
there, she kept shouting and disturbing people”.
According to the elder sister, the hospital people
were angry with Deborah and, at about 11pm that
Friday, she left the Sickle Cell Hospital at Golf
Course Road for Upper Adesuwa. “How she
walked to Upper Adesuwa that night I just don’t
know.