A 17-year-old girl has been reportedly raped by a man who also extracted blood from her private part at Kwata Zawan, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The victim who is a final year secondary school student narrated the ordeal on to journalist on Thursday in Jos. She said the suspect known as Tom Edumun is a co-tenant with her father and was married with two children. She added that he had made several attempts to rape her and later succeeded in March.

A 17-year-old girl has been reportedly raped by a man who also extracted blood from her private part at Kwata Zawan, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The victim who is a final year secondary school student narrated the ordeal on to journalist on Thursday in Jos. She said the suspect known as Tom Edumun is a co-tenant with her father and was married with two children. She added that he had made several attempts to rape her and later succeeded in March.

She said “He had been asking me to sleep with him but I kept refusing, until that fateful day, sometime in March, when my father travelled to the village and nobody was at home. He forced himself on me and had sex with me in our room. Thereafter, he threatened me with a knife, that if I told anyone he would kill me.”

“After that day, he called me to his car and drove me to a house far away from our compound. He took me to a room where two other men were waiting. They laid me down and he (Mr. Edumun) used a strange instrument to draw blood from my private parts. The three of them were holding knives. They threatened to kill me if I told my father.

“It kept disturbing me. I was becoming afraid. I could not face my father and tell him; so one day I told my younger brother, Tonzum, about all that the man had done to me. I wrote a note to my father, and then ran away to Abuja to inform my aunt. She was the one who called my father and told him. He then asked me to come back home here in Jos,” the victim narrated.
The victim said prior to the rape, Mr. Edumun sometimes wrote love notes to her and asked her to tear them after reading. She said “But I kept them and showed them to my father. The day (Mr. Edumun) raped me, he promised to give me N2, 000 if I let him have sex with me. I still refused but he forced me when everyone had left home”.

The victim who is the first of five children often went on errand for the rapist and his wife. She said “I was very close to the wife. When this incident happened, I confided in his wife but she did nothing about it instead she threatened to beat me up. She harassed my stepmom and Dad”.

Mr Gonzuk Emmanuel, a teacher at Government Secondary School, Gyel who is the Victim’s father stated that hereported the matter to the (B) Division of the Nigerian Police at Bukuru, Jos south last Wednesday.

He said that he had earlier reported the matter to their landlord and later to the village head hoping that the matter will be settled privately. He added that the alleged rapist failed to cooperate with the community leaders leaving him with no option than to go to the police.

Emmanuel said that the rapist and his wife also threatened to kill his daughter. He gave reasons why he had to wait till after three months after the incident to take action. He said “My thought was that since she was preparing for her external exams (WAEC) it may affect her performance.”

The victim father said that he was seeking justice for his daughter to serve as a deterrent to others with such rapist tendencies. He said “This is child abuse and Mr Edumun should face the wrath of the law accordingly.”

Mr Emmanuel who remarried after the victim’s mother died said the suspect was arrested by the police on Wednesday and detained.

Calls made to the police where the suspect is being detained were unsuccessful.

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Man rapes minor and extracts blood from her private part in Plateau