14-year-old girl, Felicia Anaba has fallen into coma after a 33-year-old man attacked her with cutlass for refusing to sleep with him in the bush in Obete Nchina Village, Ntighauzo community in Obingwa council area of Abia State.
The suspect, Chinazum Nwaubani,33 is currently in police custody.
Reports said Felicia and her twin brother had gone to the bush to fetch firewood when Chinazum attempted to force Felicia to have intercourse with him but she strongly resisted it while the male twin ran away in the course of the alleged sexual assault.
The suspect became infuriated and then decided to pull a machete and gave Felicia deep cuts on her head, leg and hand.
He fled the scene while the victim was covered in a pool of blood.
Felicia had lost consciousness when the search party rescued her from the bush.
Father of the victim, Chijioke Anaba accused the Police at the Eastern Ngwa Division of demanding N30,000 before attending to his daughter’s case.
He lamented that ‘My daughter had fallen into coma when she was rescued by the search party in the bush. We took her to the hospital and lodged a report with the Police at the Eastern Ngwa Division. The Police demanded N30,000 to investigate the matter, which I paid. They have arrested the suspect, but from what’s happening, I am afraid that Chinazum may be released from detention to continue his attack and kill my daughter.
‘The police should do their job because the boy is now a risk to the people in the village. The Police are saying he is a mad, man but it’s not true,” he said and pleaded with the wife of the state governor, Priscilla Otti, to come to the aid of the daughter as she may be disabled following the deep machete cuts inflicted on her by the suspect’.
Meanwhile, the Abia State Police Command have denied the allegations of demanding money from the victim’s family.
They pointed out that the command was yet to receive an official complaint on the matter.
SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
