16-year-old girl gang raped by church guards in Imo State, Nigeria

A 16-year-old girl was gang raped by three security guards of Apostolic Chruch Amumara, Imo State. The victim girl is struggling to recover from psychological and emotional trauma.

The tragic incident left her terrified and anxious with a strong sense of violation and betrayal. However, the victim’s mother Chinwe Jonah recently revealed a months-old incident to Nigerian media.

According to Chinwe, her daughter fell victim to gang rape on Dec 9, 2023. It happened when her daughter attended a church program at Apostolic Chruch Amumara.

*Three church guards raped a teenage girl*

The church program continued till midnight to the early hours of the next day. Hence, many girls who attended this program chose to stay inside the church until dawn. This is because they felt it unsafe to go outside church during program hours.

Meanwhile, a church security guard named Ibu instructed her daughter to leave the church and go home. When her daughter inquired him what offense she committed he asked her to leave church.

Then, Ibu ordered her to follow him while holding a gunpoint. Chinwe said her helpless little girl being terrified followed Ibu. Ibu took her to a nearby abandoned building where he and his two male allies gang-raped her 16-year-old girl for several hours.

The next day victim girl came home looking weak, and in pain while crying and bleeding. She told her horrible experience to her mother at the hands of three rapists.

Chinwe also shared her seventh-month-long struggle of bringing rapists under justice for what they have done to her daughter. However, she revealed relevant authorities want her to pardon culprits due to their links with influential people.

*Victim’s mother wants Nigerian police to arrest rapists*

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All three rapists have asked her for forgiveness while their allies in power tried to stop her for not reporting this case to Nigerian police. Even they gave her an N50,000 bribe for treating her daughter and not taking legal action against rapists.

They also threatened her to bear consequences if she filed this case with the police. So, she approached the media to get help pursuing legal action against her daughter’s culprits.

Chinwe also urged Nigerian Police to take effective action by conducting transparent investigations without getting under pressure from powerful allies of suspects.