Peace Corps cadet arrested for raping 17 year old student

Police in Osun State have arrested a member of a cadet of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) attached to St. Charles Grammar School, Imran Olalekan, for allegedly raping a 17-year old female student of a neigbouring school.

Imran (24) was said to have forcefully had a carnal knowledge of the girl (name witheld) inside one of the offices of the Peace Corps of Nigeria in the school.

The victim, who said Imran threatened that she would die if she ever told anyone about the incident, narrated her ordeal: “I was in school early with my friend.
Mr. Olalekan made sign that one of us should come. Initially, I didn’t know I was being called. But he pointed at me and I went to him. He grabbed my dress. I wore a shirt on my school uniform and because of that Olalekan threatened to punish me.

“I immediately knelt down and started begging him. He then pushed me inside their office. Because it was still early, no student was near the office. He asked me if I was a virgin or I owned a mobile. I told him I didn’t have a phone.

The Nation, October 27

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