13-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped And Raped in Rivers State.

 In the Ogbogoro community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, a 13-year-old girl (names withheld) was allegedly abducted and defiled by a man only identified as Prince.

As reported by Punch, the suspect grabbed the girl in a lonely place on Monday evening, March 25, 2024, and carried her to his residence where he violated her for two days.

The victim's troubled mother, Ify, simply said that she had sent her daughter on an errand at the time of the event.

She said: “I sent my 13-year-old daughter to go and buy charcoal and leaf for me on Monday around 5 pm. But I waited till 8 pm I didn’t see her. So, I became worried. So, we started looking for her. I went to the place where they were selling leaf and charcoal and was told they had not seen my daughter. We continued searching for her street to street till on Wednesday morning around past 12 pm when we saw our daughter running towards us. We immediately asked her where she had been and why she was running. She said one man was pursuing her. We asked her to take us to the place where the man named Prince is staying, around what they call White House area in Ogbogoro. We saw the brother, and he said he was the one who took and held our daughter for two days while she was on an errand

I checked my daughter as a mother, and she has been touched. I’m calling on the government and police to arrest this man to pay for what he did to my daughter.”

Three days following the event, the teenage girl's parents called the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, a rights group, to inform them that the Ozuoba Police Division had been notified of the incident.

Prince Wiro, the group's national coordinator, stated: “The police should ensure the immediate arrest of the suspect for him to be held accountable for his alleged crime. We also express worry about the safety of young girls in Ogbogoro as the incident seems to be a recurring one considering the fact that a similar incident happened on February 15, 2024, in the same Ogbogoro, where a 42-year-old man and two of his gang members abducted a 12-year-old girl to an uncompleted building where she was defiled for days. The police must ensure that such incidents do not become a norm in that area.”