{"id":1017,"date":"2024-06-01T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2024-06-01T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T06:46:44","slug":"rivers-police-arrest-suspect-who-gang-raped-pregnant-woman-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/rivers-police-arrest-suspect-who-gang-raped-pregnant-woman-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Police Arrest Suspect Who Gang-Raped Pregnant Woman To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rivers State Police Command said it has arrested one suspect, Emeka, who was suspected to have raped a pregnant woman, Mrs Chigbewejim Steward, to death.<\/p>\n

The suspect was said to have come with a gang of men who raped the victim to death in Abarikpo community of Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent gathered that the suspect had a disagreement with the deceased on February 12, 2023, after which he led his gang to break into the victim\u2019s house at midnight to kidnap her.<\/p>\n

City Round<\/em> learnt that Chigbewejim who was five months pregnant at that time was taken to an unknown location where Emeka and his gang were said to have raped her to death.<\/p>\n

Emeka was said to have fled from the community after discovering that the police were on his trail.<\/p>\n

However, he was arrested 15 months later following police discovery of his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

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Chigbewejim\u2019s husband, Lawyer Steward, who was a pastor in Abarikpo community, during an interview with newsmen in Port-Harcourt on Thursday, confirmed the arrest while appealing to the government to ensure that justice was done in the matter.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u201cEmeka, the masterminded of the death of my wife, quarrelled with her because he said that my wife called him a wicked man. He told my wife that she would see wickedness that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat night around 1 am on Sunday, February 12 2023, those bad boys came to my house and broke the door and took my wife away.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife was five months pregnant. Emeka and his gang raped and strangled her to death. The Police arrested him on Thursday. Now he is in the Police Custody. I have gone to the station to give my statement. I want the Government to intervene so that justice will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that the corpse of his late wife was discovered around a fishing pond hours after her abduction with multiple bruises and bleeding from her private parts.<\/p>\n

Contacted for reaction, the spokesperson of the Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said investigations were ongoing adding that, he (Emeka) has been arrested and the matter will be transferred to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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