Suspects who raped underage children won’t escape prosecution – Abia govt

Abia State authorities has vowed to prosecute the perpetrators who defiled and raped 5 minors and 1 big successful the state.

It said that a 10-year-old miss who survived the rape has undergone country astatine the state’s Nchedo Sexual Assault Referral Centre.

The authorities authorities besides promised that the fishy who physically assaulted a large pistillate successful the authorities precocious would not flight the wrath of the law.

Abia State Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, made this known astatine Government House, Umuahia, on Monday while addressing journalists connected the result of this week’s Executive Council gathering presided implicit by Governor Alex Otti.

He disclosed that 7 GBV and SGBV cases, comprising six cases of intersexual unit and 1 lawsuit of home violence, were precocious recorded successful the state.

According to him, the cases progressive 5 minors aged betwixt 10 and 14 years and 2 big women aged betwixt 25 and 40 years.

He said the reported cases progressive alleged defilement, rape and home unit against a large woman.

Kanu added that the Nchedo Sexual Assault Referral Centre provided aesculapian and different enactment services to survivors, including aesculapian involution and country for a 10-year-old subsister who sustai...