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The police on Wednesday were unable to arraign seven suspects arrested over the alleged sexual abuse of 11-year-old student of the
Deeper Life High School, Uyo, as the magistrate was not available to listen to the case.
The suspects include two minors, who are senior students of the school, accused of sexually abusing the victim in the school dormitory.
The others are staffers of the school, including a vice principal and a housemaster.
The police prosecutor refused to address the press as the suspects were put inside a bus and taken back to the police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia.
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Masked doctor sneaked into hospital to collect my son’s blood sample, says mother of ‘molested’ Deeper Life schoolboy
Deborah Okezie, the mother of the 11-year-old pupil of
Deeper Life High School in Akwa Ibom who was allegedly molested, has claimed
that a doctor sneaked into a hospital where her son was receiving treatment to
collect his blood sample.
In a
video on her Facebook pageon Wednesday, Okezie said
the incident happened at St. Athanasius Hospital, the first hospital where her
son was admitted.
She said the doctor, who is in his 70s, had visited the
hospital with a masked face and took her son’s blood sample under the pretense
10 boys treated for sexual abuse in Akwa Ibom in three years – official
Ms John says the centre, which offers free services, has helped about 30 rape victims get justice at the law court.
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Agape Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Akwa Ibom State, said it has provided medical and psychosocial care and support to 10 boys who have been victims of sexual abuse in the past three years.
Imaobong John, a counselling psychologist at the centre, told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday, that the 10 boys are part of the 532 cases treated so far since the centre was set up in 2017.
The 11-year-old JSS1 student of the Deeper Life High School, Uyo, alleged to have been sexually abused by two senior students of the school, was taken to the centre a few days ago for medical examination, according to a statement from the Akwa Ibom State government.
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Don Davis, the student of Deeper Life High School, Uyo Campus, who was allegedly assaulted by senior students of the school, has disclosed names of his abusers.
She also accused Akwa Ibom State Government officials and some parents of the indicted students of intimidation.
In a 45-minutes live Facebook session on Saturday, Davis narrated his experience in the hands of the senior students he simply identified as Ola and Shalom.
He disclosed that the senior students allegedly assaulted him by inserting their hands into his anus and bringing out faeces whenever others were sleeping.
In the video moderated by his mother, Davis said he could not report to the school authorities because his abusers in senior secondary school one (SSI) threatened to kill him.