According to
reports, the victim was said to be scheduled to get married on October 17, but
the marriage was called off as a result of the viral video circulated by the
suspects.
The Sokoto State Hisbah Commission has arrested three people including a politician's son for allegedly circulating a video on social media while sexually assaulting a young lady.
Confirming
the arrest to newsmen, the state Hisbah Commandant, Dr. Adamu Kasarawa, said
the suspects would be handed over to the police for prosecution.
The mother of
the victim told newsmen that the principal suspect who is the politician's son,
sexually abused her daughter sometime in 2017 when she was 16 years old. She
alleged that the suspect stored the video clips for three years with the
intention of destroying her daughter’s life.
“Exactly on
June 20, 2020, I received a call from Lagos on the circulated video of my nude
daughter being sexually abused by Baffa Hayatu Tafida.
“The suspects
shared the clips to my daughter’s suitor along with other online groups,” she
said.
The
distraught mum said the wedding which was earlier scheduled for October 17 was by the groom after Baffa released the phonographic video of him
sexually abusing the girl.
She alleged
that officials at the Department of State Services and the National Human
Rights Commission in Sokoto refused to respond to her cry for justice until she
lodged a complaint at the Hisbah commission.
The victim’s
mother claimed that the father of the principal suspect had made attempts to
induce her in order to drop the case, and threatened her on different occasions
when she refused.
When
contacted, Hayatu Tafida, the father of the principal suspect, confirmed
knowledge of the case but denied inducing the victim’s mother or threatening
her life.
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