14-year-old girl raped to death in Nigeria

A 14-year-old Nigerian secondary school pupil, Fathia Ojewoye, has been raped to death at Abeokuta in the country’s South-West Ogun State.

The teenager had on Wednesday been declared missing by her parents, but her corpse was found three days after with some of her personal effects in an uncompleted building in the area.

When a correspondent of a Nigerian news portal, The PUNCH visited the residence of the deceased’s mother, who had separated from her husband, sympathisers were seen consoling her.

When the PUNCH  attempted to speak to her, she asked to be left alone.

She, however, vowed to ensure that the killer(s) of Fathia, whom she gave birth to while in secondary school, was brought to justice.

A source in the area told The PUNCH  that Fathia was sent on an errand by her mother to refill the gas cylinder around the area, but she did not return home.

The teenager was reported to have been last seen with a young man, while she was going to the gas station.

The young man, who lives around the area, was said to have run away, apparently to avoid arrest.

It was gathered that her corpse was found in an uncompleted building near her grandmother’s residence.

She was reportedly defiled in a brutal way and later murdered by the yet-to-be-identified person(s).

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.

Oyeyemi said the investigation into the brutal killing of the teenager had commenced.