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Abia, NGN – Early this morning, a video showing a girl getting gang raped by five men, all from Abia State University, sparked mostly outrage on social networks and blogs from all over the country.

The incident supposedly happened on Tuesday, August 16th when the men raped her, recorded it, passed it around their friends who passed it around campus simply because she insulted one of them.

The original video is an hour-long and shows the girl crying and trying to fight them off in the first few minutes until she is beaten and roughly handled. Afterwards she starts pleading and at a point, even begs that they kill her instead. The men laugh at her and threaten to keep her and continue consecutively for two days.

Ten minutes of it was posted by a member on Naijapals asking other members to “help identify the boys in the video”.

People on Twitter and Facebook have expressed all sorts of emotion, most of them furious at the graphic content and ignorance of those who seem to think the girl enjoyed the torture. Some even went on to start a #rapeherif trending topic, adding insult to injury.

We hope the rapists can be brought to justice as such violence should not be condoned in any society.

Source: Linda Ikeji Blog

Faridah D. Seriki

Faridah Seriki has been interested in technology since she got her hands on a desktop when she was 8. She founded Technesstivity after releasing a successful blog she made for class combining her passion for both journalism and technology. Faridah graduated from Vivian Fowler in 2009 and now lives in New York where she is a Broadcast Journalism major with a minor in Computer Science at Hofstra University.

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