(UPDATE) Assaulted 5yrs Abia girl, Chidera cries for justice, says Ikemefuna does it to me everyday
By Charity Uwakwe
Miss Chidera, the five years old girl who reportedly suffered incessant sexual abuse from her uncle, Ikemefuna Igwe, in Umule-Nso, Afugiri Ohuhu, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has cried for justice.
Chidera told famousreporters.com in an interview that she wanted her abuser arrested so he could face the wrath of the law thus paying for the emotional, mental and psychological pain he had put her through.
“I am angry because of Ikemefuna. I want the police to arrest him”, were her words.
Little Chidera who could hardly produce a clear sound as a result of the trauma and stigma, but for the atmosphere of love and care our Correspondent provided, in a low, devastated tone voice, and her local dialect, certified her father’s confessions. .
The traumatized infant told our Reporter, last Saturday, at her hometown, that Ikemefuna regularly had a canal knowledge of her daily when she returned from school and had threatened to flog her should she reveal the evil act to her father.
Narrating her ordeal, the rape victim recounted that Ikemefuna would lure her to his room each time she returned from school, take off her dress, lay her in his bed and defile her, with a promise to buy her “groundnuts” after the act.
Drowned in her melancholic state and amidst a deluge of tears, hysterically flowing down her cheeks, the innocent child called on the government of Abia State and Nigeria to mediate in her ordeal thereby bringing Ikemefuna to book.
Here is the conversation that took place between our reporter and little Chidera:
Q. Please, baby, what’s your name?
Resp. Chidera
Q. how old are you?
Resp. Five years
Q. what did Ikemefuna do to you
Resp. He is abusing me sexually, he gives me groundnut each time he wants to do it .he does this every time I come back from school .
Q. where does he normally do this?
Resp. In their house
Q. How did you know he was abusing you sexually?
Resp. He does it every time I come back from school and he will always lock the house when he is done he will let me out.
Q. What does he say to you before he starts having sex with you?
Resp. He will always Promise to buy groundnut for me once he is done.
Q. Can you describe what he actually does to you?
Resp. He removes my pants and puts his thing (pennis) inside my body.
Q. Have you ever seen blood coming out from your body?
Resp. No, I haven’t seen blood
Q. Did you like what he is doing to you?
Resp. No
Q. So, why didn’t you tell your daddy?
Resp. He said if I tell my daddy, he will flog me.
Q. How did your class teacher catch you in the act?
Resp. It was during break, we went to play and I beckoned on my classmate to come and we practised what Ikemefuna does with me.
Q. How did you have sex with your classmate who was on top?
Resp. I laid against the wall
Q. Does Ikemefuna lie you in bed during sex or do you stand?
Resp. He keeps me in his bed.
Q. What do you want the government to do for you now? what do you want them to do to Ikemefuna?
Resp. I want them to take ikemefuna away; I want police to come arrest him.
Q. How do you feel now?
Resp. I’m angry because of Ikemefuna
