Age doesn't matter in rep case



I'm women and children's right activist in our village GBV, CHILD MARRIAGE, CHILD PREGNANCY , SEXUAL ABUSE etc. It a Sunday morning when I received a call from the area village Elda, I was shocked to hear that there was a woman of ege 80 years old who was Rept by seven men! I went to the victim's house and I found her on the floor. I called the ambulance before I asked for what happened. I was told that she was left alone  the home when the rest of the family went to the neighbor for a burial meeting at night when the perpetrators enter her house, they did not use force because there was no door just a box on the door. Nobody came for her Rescue because they covered her mouth with a towel , When the ambulance came I and the village Elda and her two daughters a company her to the hospital. In the hospital she was also given PEP drugs for prevention and she was admitted in the hospital for five days .I went to the police the same day to report the matter and I gave the police the bed sheets from the seen and the clothes and under pants of the victim to be used as ex beet,  She was discharge from the hospital after  recovery and the following day we went to the police station to record a statement. The police asked her if she can remember them and she said she recognized one of the perpetrators voice and when he was arrested by the police he mentioned all of them and they were all arrested and taken to Court . After three months of the case they were found guilty and judgment was 18 years imprisonment. 

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