Gang posed as female on social media, drugged and raped me – Female Model

It is said that everything has both advantage and disadvantage. Social media is no exception, even though it has taken over the world and to a very large extent reduced the globe to a small village where people across the world are able to interact on a common platform.

While most people use the channel positively, there are equally some miscreants who equally take advantage of it to perpetrate criminal activities.

A Nigerian model, Sybil Nwaka narrated to a Sexual Offenses Court in Lagos on Thursday how some criminally minded men disguised their identities on social media by using female photos and names, and succeeded in drugging and raping her.

She said spoke about how she met somebody on social media who claimed to be called Vanessa, a Fashion Designer based in the United Kingdom.

They both agreed that when Vanessa returns to Nigeria, she would make the victim showcase some of her designs for her.

“She told me she just moved to Nigeria from the UK that she was going to start a fashion business in Nigeria and since I have an idea of the fashion industry that I could show her around and give her ideas and I agreed.

“Subsequently we talked for like seven months and I got real comfortable with her because we talked a lot and I felt she was a girl entrepreneur like me and I supported her.

“She said her mum didn’t support her career and she would like her mum to meet me and I agreed. She said she would send the address and I informed her I would take Uber but she admonished that I save on transporting so I took a bus to the address.

“ When I got to the address, Iand called her but she said she would send her gateman over. The second defendant, Naduzie Okabueze, acted like the gateman. She said she was helping her mum so she couldn’t come to pick me. On getting to the house it looked like a proper house from outside but on getting inside I felt something was wrong and called her. She said her father runs a hotel and her mum sometimes stayed there and I naively believed her.”

The victim and her so-called friend agreed to meet.

“They asked me to give them my ATM card saying if I didn’t give them N2 million they would kill me. They collected my phone password and pin number and asked me to start calling people to send money to me.

“They said I should call my parents but I lied they were both dead. I called my cousin and he sent money to me. I got there about 11:59 am and was there till 7 pm. They withdrew the money my cousin sent and collected the gold chain I had on me.

“They took naked pictures of me and the three guys had sex with me and they were blackmailing me with the pictures they took saying if I told anybody what happened that they were going to find me and kill me. The second defendant took me to the bus stop to make sure I didn’t talk to anybody. I boarded a bus and went to my cousin’s house,” the victim said.

The case is now in court because the victim was advised to make a report to Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Response Team at Alausa, leading to the arrest of five of the suspects.

Gang posed as female on social media, drugged and raped me – Female Model

It is said that everything has both advantage and disadvantage. Social media is no exception, even though it has taken over the world and to a very large extent reduced the globe to a small village where people across the world are able to interact on a common platform.

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