Teacher rapes 13-year-old girl to death in Bayelsa

A 30-year-old teacher, Promise Sylvanus Ogun, of Government Secondary School, Toroegbeni, in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has allegedly raped a minor to death.

The suspect was said to have owned up to the rape before family and compound chiefs and allegedly paid the deceased hospital bill at a private hospital in Opolo area of Yenagoa, the state capital.

However, the suspect allegedly made a U-turn by accusing the father of the deceased of a threat to life before the Area Command of the Police in Sagbama.

It was gathered that the civil society organisation and girl child advocacy groups in the state including the Girl Response Initiative Team set up by the wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Gloria Diri, and the DO Foundation led by Dise Ogbise-Erhisere are planning to visit the State Police Commissioner, Mike Okoli, to demand proper investigation and arrest of the alleged rapist.

The civil society groups are angered by the fact that instead of investigating the alleged rape and death of the 13-year-old girl, they are busy summoning the deceased father over the trumped-up charges of the alleged threat to life by the accused teacher.

Investigation revealed that the deceased teenager, sometime in March 2020 was waylaid and molested by the waterside in Ogoibiri community of Sagbama where she had gone to take her bath and allegedly raped twice by the suspected teacher.

The Father of the deceased, Pinaowei Gana, said the girl did not report she was violated and raped by them.

He stated: ”She kept it to herself and was bleeding little by little. About two months later, we noticed some strange smell and she complained of serious sickness. We took her to a local massage therapist and we were told that the child had been defiled and infected.

“We took her back to tell my landlord and some elders about her defilement. She confirmed it was the teacher. The teacher pleaded that I should not go to the police and that he would pay for her treatment and settle with the family.

“He (the teacher) took her to a private hospital in Opolo where he was admitted for over a week. But he came back and discharged the child without the doctor’s advice and dumped her with me. Two days later, the girl died.”

The deceased father also confirmed that after he raised the alarm over the death of her child, the suspect, and his entire family moved out of the area.

He, however, said the suspect’s father deposited the corpse of the girl at the mortuary along the Amassoma road pending the resolution of the conflict.

Speaking on the development, the Founder of the DO Foundation, Dise Ogbise-Erhisere, confirmed that the deceased died from complications of rape, insisting that the girl child advocacy groups were planning to visit the Commissioner of Police over the matter.

She stated: “A crime has been committed and the culprit has admitted to the crime. They need to ensure he is arrested and prosecuted.
“On the reported petition of the alleged pedophile, the police need to investigate and determine who is culpable and where the corpse of the defiled and deceased child is.”

She called on the police authorities to transfer the case from Area Command in Sagbama to the State Police Headquarters in Yenagoa, the state capital.

https://thenationonlineng.net/teacher-rapes-13-year-old-girl-to-death-in-bayelsa/

This is an heinous act. The teacher should be brought to book.

Women advocate



Fati2001. What should be done here

WTF? The teacher should and must face the full wrath of the law.

Why do people rape sef when there are over 10 million oloshos in Nigeria who will charge you less than 3k for a night? I'm low-key tired of this useless corn tree.

After Lockdown
Dem Open
Dem Start To Rape Student

Lawwd hammercy

Some people get mind sha

Castration alert

Kestolove:
Castration alert

For Nigeria?

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If them no castrate that teacher, them Bleep up


More reasons why I tell parents, be close to your children.


Two months is too much not to know your child has been defiled.


RIP baby girl

damn

speechless.... this is heartbreaking...
and the culprit get mind to report to police that the victims Father is threatening his life

rip to the dead

Kai

what a life

Another one..... The country is so messed up

hmm

To take a common analogy used here

THIS MEANS THAT ALL CHRISTIANS AND SOUTHERNERS ARE RAPISTS...

And before anyone jumps on me, many of you use the allegation that Muslims and Northernes are rapists when the case involves a Nrthern muslim.

The purpose of my comment is simple. Let's focus on the crime, not on the tribe of the criminal or the religion or the race. Bigotry is wrong.

Andall rapists deserve jail. Permanently

He must definitely pay for his inhumane act, after raping her twice and she got infected.
Beast in form of human

Chai

Open his legs wide,then find just 10 soldier ants and put it near his pennis so they can feast on it for 30 mins then take him to court and charge the werey.

Pedophilia

I sense Poverty here, someone raped your child all you required of him is hospital bills payment.
Arrest the werey, arrest wereys Family join, threaten to kill all of them generation to the 50th generation. Hospital Bills no come work you now know he killed your child, he killed her the day he raped her.

gambia:
Another one..... The country is so messed up

This kind of thing happens everywhere.. Not just Nigeria

Animals everywhere. I have four beautiful sisters, whenever I see a news about rape like this they immediately come to my mind and I begin to imagine how I will feel and react if something like that happens to them. e no go funny Sha , one person must die either me or the culprit and anybody weh DEH on him side. the other day I was behind my last Born who is just 15 but looks bigger than her age one idiot was just looking at her behind and started demonstrating to his friend about her backside then I heard him say to the next guy " wetin children of this days DEH chop see as this one Don full everywhere" omo as I hear am e burst my head. na community people settle us.

Rape him too

Demon!!!

can rape ever end