JOHNSON BABAJIDE writes that the death of a young girl raped by her guardian and son is currently causing ripples across Benue State, with women activists calling for justice.
IF Elizabeth Ochanya’s parents had known that the life of their daughter would suffer a terrible blow and end in misery and eventual death, they would have buried the idea of giving her out to another family to be her guardian.
Elizabeth’s fate was sealed the day the decision was made to take her to her aunty where she began a new life at age five so that she could attend school, since there was no school at her parents’ village at that time.
The first three years in her new home was reportedly rosy – probably because she was still growing then – until devil struck through her cousin, Victor Ogboja, who allegedly forcefully had carnal knowledge of her. When the act was discovered and reported to…
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