Four undergraduate students were arrested for allegedly gang raping a female student of the Adeyemi College of Education (ACE) in Ondo State. The four culprits were identified as Olakunle Adetuyi, Timilehin Akinola, Tobi Olagbaju and Adebisi Adeyemi, all aged between 24 and 26.
The police are searching for another culprit, Eric Nwage, who has been at large since his cohorts were nabbed by the security agents. The victim is a 22-year-old student from the departments of history and English of the institution.
She is also an estranged girlfriend to Timilehin Akinola of the social studies department in the same college. It was gathered that the victim was lured to the private residence of one of the rapists in Fagun area in Ondo town.
The residence where the crime took place belongs to Mr. Olagbaju who is a part-time student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo in the state. After the student arrived at Mr. Olagbaju's residence, the gang members took turns raping her.
A very close friend to the victim reported the case to the school private security outfit. Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, said: "One of the suspects, Olakunle, took a video of their heinous crime and later abandoned her and threatened that they would use charms on her if she ever revealed the incident to anyone.
The phone and charms used in perpetrating the crime were recovered." She added that the victim is currently recuperating at the hospital in Ile Ife, Osun State. In his confession, Mr. Akinola admitted that he and his friends raped the victim.
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