An X user identified as Amaka has shared how she facilitated the arrest of a 43-year-old male neighbour who sexually and physically abused his 12-year-old house help and children’s nanny.

While detailing the incident via a post she shared on Friday night, Amaka revealed that it happened in the middle of 2023.

She wrote: “I’ve been skeptical about sharing this story. Mid last year, June/July to be precise, in my old house, I had this friend, a 12-year-old girl. She was a househelp and a nanny to three kids,” Amaka wrote on X.

Trigger warning: SA/child abuse/ rape/ 🩸/ pedophilia

I’ve been skeptical about sharing this story. Mid last year, June/July to be precise in my old house, I had this friend (a 12 year old girl), she was a househelp and a nanny to 3 kids. We used to engage in random small..

— Amaka🤎 (@chiamakababe) February 2, 2024

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RESCUE CAME WHEN THE SURVIVOR SPOKE OUT

Amaka sensed that her young friend wanted to confide in her, as evidenced by the way she would knock on her door and then run away afterwards on most afternoons.

“One day, I caught her doing the same thing and I asked her her reasons. She said she wanted to tell me something. I brought her into my apartment; she was very reluctant to speak,” she wrote.

“I let her take her time. She told me how her employer, a 43-year-old man, was abusing her physically and sexually. She told me how he used to forcefully rape her every night (vaginally and anally) with saliva, and nights when she shouted and struggled, he’ll beat her and brutalise her.”

After the assaulted minor had shown Amaka the scars in sensitive areas of her body, she gave her her parents number and pleaded with her to call them.

However, as Amaka revealed, the parents could not be reached because none of the numbers were reachable.

“She couldn’t even sit because she said she was in a lot of pain. Immediately, I started dialing some NGOs. I told my other neighbour that I trusted. I told her everything, and she was in tears and distraught. We both started contacting different NGOs, none of them showed up,” Amaka wrote.

Amaka revealed that when none of the non-governmental organisations showed up, she wanted to take the girl away but was discouraged on the grounds that it could jeopardise the case.

“And they could term it kidnapping,” she noted.

A part of Amaka’s narration of the incident on X read: “We waited all day/night, no one showed up still. I was too restless. She was back at their apartment and her employers returned. While she was doing chores that night, I heard whips and screams from their house. I dashed out of my apartment. I saw this child crying and hiding behind a car in the compound.

“I asked her what was going on she said the man told her he was going to sleep with her that night, and she hissed at him, so he started hitting her with his belt.

“I was so enraged. I went to his door to confront him. He came to where the girl was hiding and started pulling her to come inside. I couldn’t stand the sight of him grabbing her hand and immediately I pounced on him. I hit him in his face multiple times. I punched as hard as I could. I dug my nails around his throat and slammed his head against the wall. We struggled. I got hurt in the process and sustained injuries. I bled so much.

“It was late and people were already asleep, [but] the noise woke everyone up and they rushed out and pulled me away from him.

“The crowd started building up. Even while dizzy, I used my last strength to grab the little girl by her hand and locked her in my apartment. I had to get to the hospital because I was losing blood. I got to the hospital and I got stitches. I was given some medications too.”

HOW THE ABUSER WAS ARRESTED

On the night of the incident, Amaka further disclosed, the abuser was arrested after a neighbour called the police.

“I took the little girl along with me and I was holding her all through, encouraging [her] to speak and say everything she had told me. She was able to answer properly as she was being questioned and the man got locked up in the cell,” said Amaka.

Amaka and the neighbour took the survivor to a Lagos-based sexual assault referral centre called Mirabel Centre the following morning.

She also mentioned that the girl received adequate medical care before she was returned home to her parents in Abia State one month later.

“They were very kind and swiftly responded to us. We carried out all the tests on her. And reports showed she was severely bruised vaginally and anally,” Amaka said.

“Thankfully she tested negative to STDs, pregnancy, HIV and hepatitis B. The medical reports were forwarded to the station where the man was remanded. With the help of the contacts I made at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), he was transferred to Area F, and afterwards remanded in Kirikiri prison.”

FIJ reached out to Amaka for additional information via X on Saturday, but no response had been received at press time.