An eleven-year-old girl, Blessing (not real name) gang-raped by two boys in Abia State who also broke one of her legs, is appealing to the President’s wife and non-governmental organisations to take up her case.
Eleven-year-old Blessing (not real name) is no longer the girl she used to be. Once cheerful and the joy of her mother, she is now a shadow of herself. Managing to say hello to visitors in the hospital, she burst into tears as she tried to recount how she was gang-raped and beaten up by two young men in her village. As she narrated the nightmare, Blessing kept making a plea: “Bring the boys who raped me to justice.”
Blessing narrates as she lay on a bed at the Police Clinic at Bende Road, Umuahia in Abia State, said she would be happy if the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, could help her to get justice.
“We are poor and have nobody to help us. The police haven’t helped us. So, I think Mrs. Buhari is the one who can help me to get justice. After they raped me, they were still moving around freely and no one could do anything to them,” she said.
She also implore NGOs to come to her aid. Saying, "they should help me to get justice by arresting those who raped me. They are walking freely. They are even threatening my family members especially my mother. The police have not also been able to offer help even when my mother ran to them for help,’’ as she stared at some of the people standing close to her bed stand.
