Woman Collects Money, Hands 14- Year-Old Virgin To Rapist In Lagos Hotel (Photo)

A 25-year-old woman, Nnena Okoro, has

been arrested by the police after she

reportedly lured a 14-year-old girl, Faith

(pseudonym) to a hotel, where a man

raped her.

Okoro lives in Sumoratu Estate, off Ojo

Road, Lagos State, where the victim

resides. She was said to have been

Faith’s confidant.

PUNCH Metro gathered that on the noon

of May 16, when the girl’s aunt, with

whom she lives, was not around, Okoro

approached her and requested that she

accompanied her to the Barracks area to

buy mangoes.

It was learnt that Okoro rejected the

mangoes available in the area and went

to Wowo, a nearby street, where the

hotel was located.

Our correspondent was told that Okoro,

who had allegedly collected an

undisclosed amount from the fleeing

rapist, lured Faith into a room in the

hotel and shut the door.

Faith said her mouth was covered, as

Nnena aided the man To Molest her.

She said, “Aunty Nnena (Okoro) said I

should follow her to buy mangoes in

Barracks Lane.

She did not like the mangoes they had

there and she said we should go to Ojo

Road.

We went to a hotel and met a man, who

she called her friend. Aunty Nnena told

me to enter a room.

Suddenly, both of them dragged me to

the bed. Nnena held my hand and

covered my mouth with a cloth.

The man pulled off my trousers and

raped me. He left the hotel immediately

he finished doing it and said he had

paid Aunty Nnena.”

“I went outside crying. It was one

woman around the area that helped to

clean the blood coming out from my

private parts when she saw me. She

later took me to the Layeni Police

Station.”

In her statement to the police, Okoro,

who hails from Abia State, confessed to

taking the girl to the hotel.

She denied coercing the victim into the

act and claimed that she had never met

the man prior to the incident.

She said, “Faith is my friend. On the

fateful day, we both went to buy

mangoes on Ojo Road.

On getting to a hotel at Tolu, one man

called her.

They both discussed and the man paid

N500 to the hotel attendant and they

entered the room. I later left them

inside the room to ease myself.

It was when I came back that she told

me that she was raped. I did not know

that she was a virgin.

We have never discussed anything like

that before. Her pants were stained

with blood.

I have never seen the man before that

day, but I can recognise him if I see

him again.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that Okoro had

been arraigned before an Apapa

Magistrate’s Court on two counts

bordering on the crime, while the police

said they had launched a manhunt for

the suspect.

The charges read, “That you, Nnena

Okoro, and one other male, now at

large, on May 16, 2015, at about 3.20pm,

at Graziela Hotel on Wowo Street, Tolu,

Ajegunle, in the Lagos Magisterial

District, did conspire to commit felony

to wit; defilement, and thereby

committed an offence punishable under

Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos

State of Nigeria, 2011.

“That you, Nnena Okoro, on the same

date, time and place in the

aforementioned magisterial district, did

hold the hands of 14-year-old Faith to

the bed and allowed one other man at

large to have unlawful carnal

knowledge of her, and thereby

committed an offence punishable under

Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos

State of Nigeria, 2011.”

The accused pleaded not guilty.

A police prosecutor, ASP Olusoji

Ojaokomo, said a medical test conducted

on the girl revealed that her hymen had

been ruptured.

The defendant’s counsel pleaded with

the court to grant bail to his client.

The presiding m agistrate, Mr. P.A.

Adekomaya, admitted her to bail in the

sum of N100,000. He adjourned the case

till June 22, 2015.