A 14-year-old girl, Maryam Salisu, has been found dead with her eyes, breasts, tooth and tongue removed in the outskirts of Babale community, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.
According to Daily Trust, the relatives of the deceased said that Maryam was attacked while fetching wood to be used for cooking in a nearby bush.
Narrating her last encounter with Maryam, the mother of the deceased, Fatima Danliti, who couldn’t hold back her tears said that she had left everything to Allah.
She said, “It is painful but there is nothing I can do. It is left for the person that committed the crime and Allah.”
One of the girls who witnessed the incident, Aisha Sani, said “We were together when the man suddenly hit Maryam on her head. We started begging him to leave her alone because we couldn’t understand what she did to deserve being hit.”
A resident and former councillor of the area, Sani Babale said the deceased, alongside 12 other girls went to a nearby bush to fetch firewood when Fatima was attacked, while the rest of them ran for safety.
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