RRS arrests 4 men for robbing and gang-raping women, at Oshodi

The Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) arrested a four-man gang on Wednesday morning after it was revealed that they robbed and gang-raped women along Charity Bus Stop in Oshodi, the authorities said.

The suspects were identified as Sunday John (27), Saviour Daniel (23), Daniel Olayemi (18) and Abdulwahab Yusuph (17).

According to the RSS, the suspects had ‘robbed 12 passers-by and raped no fewer than nine ladies in the bush at Charity Bus Stop,’ including a 57 years old woman.

Confessing to his crimes, one of the suspect stated that “we were always operating at Charity Bus Stop from 4:00 a.m. to 5:40 a.m. Our last operation was on a lady of about 57 years old. She was passing by Charity Bus Stop. I snatched her handbag and disappeared into the bush. I came out of the bush to see three of my colleagues having sex with the lady. I hid the best of three phones I found in the lady’s bag. I disclosed to them that I saw two small phones and N8, 000:00 in the lady’s bag.”

The gang leader, Sunday John (a bus conductor in Oshodi), was arrested at Charity Bus Stop around 5:37 am along with two of his gang members after being ratted out by the fourth member, Daniel Olayemi, who was arrested a day before. Sunday told security officers that his gang is not only group that operates at the bus stop.

18-year-old Daniel Olayemi was arrested first on Tuesday evening while fighting with another group of boys over a Samsung tablet in Oshodi. In the course of interrogation, he disclosed that he stole the tablet from a lady that was gang raped during one of their escapades in Charity Bus Stop. The revelation promoted an early morning raid of Charity Bus Stop the next day which lead to the arrest of the other members of the gang.

Olayemi also revealed that days before, they had raped a 42 year old woman at the same spot. “When we didn’t see any valuable from her bag. We took turns to rape her, then, we allowed her to go…,” he said. They also robbed and raped men.

Presently, the RRS have placed its surveillance team in Charity Bus Stop with the hope of arresting other gangs mentioned by Sunday John.

Confirming the development, the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Dolapo Badmos, said that the suspects have made very useful suggestions to enable the police arrest other group members implicated in the crime. The suspects have been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigations.

Police Arraign Three Teenagers Over Alleged Gang Rape

Three teenagers, Elijah Adebowale, Suleiman Balogun and Shefiu Adam, were on Thursday charged before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over the alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Adebowale (15), Balogun (16) and Adam (14), who all resides at the Iju area of Lagos, are being tried on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor.

The Prosecutor, Insp. Rita Momah, told the court that the teenagers and three others, now at large, committed the offences on Oct. 5, in an uncompleted building at Olopade St., Iju-Ishaga, Lagos.

Momah said that the accused all conspired to lure the 13-year-old to the building, where the six of them took turns with her.

She explained that the accused persons spotted the 13-year-old coming out of a church and sent her to get drinks for them.

According to Momah, the accused offered the 13-year-old a bottle of assorted drink that was already spiked and each of them all had carnal knowledge of her.

The prosecution submitted that the offences contravened Sections 409 and 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge leveled against them.

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Nun In Her 70’s Gang-Raped In India

Three men suspected of gang-raping an elderly Indian nun at a convent have been pictured for the first time.According to Dailymail, the woman, who is in her 70s, was trying to prevent the men from robbing the Christian missionary school when she was attacked.

CCTV has now been released showing the suspects leaving the staff room on Friday night. A reward of 100,000 rupees (around £1,075) is on offer for any leads, police said.

Arnab Ghosh, a police superintendent, said:

‘CCTV footage showed that six men, aged between 20 and 30, scaled the boundary wall around 11.40pm and entered the school and disconnected the telephone lines.’ The robbers then tied up and gagged a security guard before entering the nuns’ room, where they found the women
sleeping.When the victim, who is the oldest nun at the school, tried to stop them taking another woman into a separate room they raped her.

The men escaped with some cash, a mobile phone, a laptop computer and a camera. They also ransacked the school’s chapel and took holy items. Footage shows books and papers strewn across the floor as the men leave the staff room.

200 Lashes, 6-Month Jail Term, Saudi Arabia’s Sanction For Women Who Have Been Gang Raped

A Saudi woman who had fallen victim to a violent gang-rape has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail after being found guilty of speaking to the media about the crime and indecency.

The Shia woman, 19 years old back in 2006, was in the car of a student friend when two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area, where she was raped by seven men, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.

She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man, because the Saudi law dictates that a male family member must accompany a woman at all times in public.

The rapists were, surprisingly, sentenced to prison terms up to five years, which were regarded light considering the fact that they could have faced the death penalty.

The woman’s lawyer, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, appealed to the Saudi General Court after the sentences were handed down. The court, however, more than doubled her sentence because the victim had spoken to the media.

“For whoever has an objection on verdicts issued, the system allows to appeal without resorting to the media,” Saudi officials said in a statement published on the official Saudi Press Agency.

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