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Damongo, Ghana – Two teenage boys in Damongo in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region are currently in the grips of the law for raping a young girl and sharing nude videos and pictures of their wicked act meted out to the victim.
According to Bole based Nkilgi FM, chiefs and other religious leaders in Damongo who are expected to report rape cases and other criminal acts to the police for prosecution when they are brought to their attention are rather mounting pressure on the father of the young girl to withdraw the case from court for settlement.
But the father of the young girl is adamant and has called on the the general public to take interest in the case because in his view, what has happened to his daughter could happen to somebody’s daughter in future.
Narrating the chilling story to this reporter, father of the victim, said his daughter was returning home after buying books in the Damongo township at about 8:00pm a week ago.
He said a young boy called Salim offered his daughter a lift on his motor bike since they all reside in the same area.
The victim, who is a JHS girl, said whiles on the motorbike with Salim, he made a phone call to his friend to meet him immediately in the house.
Salim took the young girl straight to his house despite the victim telling him to stop for her to walk home since they had gotten to their area but Salim continued speeding till they got to Salim’s house.
Salim told the young girl she should exercise patience and sit in his verandah and that she just want to pick something in his room and send her to her house.
The girl’s father said while sitting in the verandah, Salim’s friend called Ganiu quickly brought out two knifes and threatened to stab the young girl should she attempt to raise an alarm.
The ‘overpowered’ young girl complied and followed them to a room. She tried to resist the boys as they both tried to forcibly have sex with her but she was given a small cut on the neck by Ganiu to show they meant ‘business’.
The girl succumbed to the pressure of the boys to prevent them from stabbing or killing her.
The poor girl was subjected to several rounds of rough sex by the two boys while they took videos and pictures of her as they engaged in the act.
The boys after the act warned the girl not to disclose to anybody what happened to her else she will be killed.
Out of fear, the victim went silent over the sexual assault on her for a week but surprisingly the boys released the videos to the general public.
The girl’s father told Nkilgi FM that the videos of the sexual act went viral in the Damongo area and got to him so he went to lodge a complaint with the Damongo police after his daughter explained what happened.
The two boys were subsequently arrested and arraigned before the Bole magistrate court.
The case has since been adjourned to a later date for hearing.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Mahama Haruna
