Sudanese police arrest main suspect in teenager’s rape
January 7, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese police arrested one of three individuals who abducted and raped a minor girl to revenge on her father the secretary-general of the suspended committee to dismantle the former regime.
Three individuals kidnapped the minor rape survivor girl in the Al-Mamoura neighbourhood, south of Khartoum, and took her to an unknown location on Friday. They beat and raped her, before leaving her off the Manshiyya bridge linking Khartoum and East Nile suburb.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Khartoum state police said that the Acting Minister of Interior and the police chiefs in Khartoum state visited the family of the victim and formed immediately a special team was formed to investigate the case and search her.
“The special team, in record time, identified the perpetrators and arrested the main suspect, the owner of the vehicle, who confessed (the crime). The police continue investigations under the supervision of the Public Prosecution,” read the statement.
On Saturday morning, a member of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) told Sudan Tribune, that the security authorities arrested one of the perpetrators of the sexual assault in the East Nile area, on Friday night.
To show the political dimension of the sexual assault, the perpetrators demanded the rape survivor to inform her father that they would be able to reach him whenever they wanted.
The family filed a lawsuit at the Burri police station, east of Khartoum, and the victim was transferred to the police hospital in a very bad psychological condition.
In a related development, the victim’s father revealed new details about the incident in statements to the Al-Arabiya TV channel on Saturday.
The ERC’s Secretary-General, al-Tayeb Osman Youssif, said his daughter was abducted by three individuals in a black vehicle and taken her to a house outside Khartoum, where she was assaulted.
Youssif added that the medical examination showed that there were violent attempts to rape his daughter, pointing out that they tore her clothes. But she resisted the perpetrators,” he stressed.
He thanked the tea vendors for providing his daughter with a phone to call the family once the kidnappers brought her back to the Manshiyya bridge
The suspended ERC secretary-general said the sexual attack on his daughter would not affect his determination.
Several Sudanese women’s organizations rejected taking the bodies of girls and women as a means of political struggle and called for a protest in front of the Public Prosecution headquarters on Sunday.
(ST)