Cultists in Delta State University, have defiled some students during an initiation. One of the victim identified as Cecilia (surname withheld) of the Department of Sociology was among four other girls who were defiled by the suspects.
Over 20 persons allegedly defiled the girls on their way home from evening church service.
Although three victims escaped after the first round of sex, but Cecilia, the last victim, could not as the defilers were all over her after she was threatened with gun before she was defiled.
Another version of the story had it that some of the girls, who were raped were members of a cult group called Ake Confraternity but did not know that rape was part of the initiation rite.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the incident, said the police stormed an uncompleted building where a victim was being raped by a member of the gang. The remaining girls were waiting, according to the PPRO, were waiting for their turn as part of the initiation into a cult group.
Kalu disclosed that four of the suspected defilers were arrested while the girls were rescued and the severely injured victim taken to the hospital for treatment.
The Divisional Police Officer, Abraka Division, received information that girls were crying in an uncompleted building in the bush.
Based on the report, detectives stormed the building and found out that a cult group known as ‘Ake’ was conducting initiation of new members and that the girls were being defiled.
