Eight secondary school boys seize, gang-rape 14-year-old schoolgirl in Ogun

A 14-year-old schoolgirl in the Ijebu-Mushin area of Ogun State has been seized and bizarrely gang-raped by some eight teenage secondary school boys.

Persecondnews reports that like Baltasar Engonga, the Equatorial Guinea official involved in the massive sex tapes row, the serial rapists also filmed their criminal acts.

The suspects, including 17-year-old Mathew Omotayo and seven others who have been apprehended, had taken the victim to a secluded room and had canal knowledge of her without her consent.

The suspects also used the video of the scene of the act to continually blackmail their victim not to report the incident, according to the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

The command’s spokesman Dyke Ogbonnaya, on Thursday, identified the other suspects as “Mojeeb Solomon, male, 16 years; Olamilekan Adefuye, male, 18 years; Damilola Ismail, male, 19 years; Emmanuel George, male, 17 years; Aborisade Paul Ayomide, male, 17 years; Paul Chukwuchebe, male, 19 years; and Lateef Adeoye, male, 16 years.

Ogbonnaya said: “The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ogun State Command Headquarters, Abeokuta, has arrested one Matthew Omotayo, male, 17 years old, and seven other suspected teenagers for alleged conspiracy, sexual abuse, unlawful sexual intercourse, exploitation, and assault of a 14-year-old minor (name withheld) at the Ijebu-Mushin, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State on Friday, November 15, 2024.

“The alleged suspects, who claimed to be students of St. Anthony Grammar School, Esure, Ijebu-Mushin, Ijebu East Local Government Area of the state, took the said minor without consent to a secluded room and had violent sexual intercourse with her, putting the same event in a video form.

“According to the narrative of the assaulted minor, she was sexually abused the first time and was recorded, and the alleged suspects threatened to upload the video on social media if she did not allow them to have her again, which she also consented to until she resolved to report the matter to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Divisional Office at Ijebu-Mushin, Ogun State.”

The victim, however, decided to report the matter after she was allegedly beaten and verbally assaulted by the suspects.

He said the victim’s statement led to the arrest of the teenagers while the victim was made to undergo a medical examination.

After conducting a preliminary investigation, Ogbonnaya said the command sought a remand order, which was granted by a magistrate’s court sitting in Ijebu.

“The results of the investigations culminated in the application for a remand order by the state command’s legal officer through the Magistrate Court in Ijebu-Mushin, Ogun State.

“Upon the presentation of the matter by the prosecution counsel with several pieces of evidence, the court ordered a 60-day remand of the eight suspects, after which the directives of the Department of Public Prosecutions on the matter should have been out.

“The Hon. Magistrate Sotayo granted the prayer of the civil defence legal officer to remand the suspects pending the outcome of the advice from the DPP, and he thereafter adjourned the matter to January 20, 2025.”

Meanwhile, the Ogun NSCDC commandant, Dr. Remilekun Ekundayo, has warned that the command would not tolerate abuse of minors, adding that perpetrators of such acts would be dealt with.

“The Corps will not tolerate any act of abuse on the girl child or a minor either by teenagers, caregivers, guardians, and/or parents.

“Anyone caught in such an indecent act would be dealt with decisively according to the dictates of the law,” she said.