A 13-year-old girl was gang-raped by three people in Anambra State.
Agents from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons were responsible for the arrest of.
Cooperative vigilante operators helped with this.
While the fourth suspect, Nwa aw, managed to escape during the arrest carried out around Onitsha, the commercial hub of the state, according to Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, Media Aide to the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Affairs, Hon. Ify Obinabowho.
Ikeanyionwu said: “According to the victim, the suspects were co-tenants with them, but took her to Nkisi river to rape her after they had an altercation with her father.
“The victim while narrating her experience to the commissioner said she was first slapped by the boys, then dragged to Nkisi before she was ordered to remove her clothes as the suspects took turns to have carnal knowledge of her.”