{"id":158686,"date":"2019-10-08T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=158686"},"modified":"2019-10-08T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:01:05","slug":"adamawa-records-54-rape-cases-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=158686","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa Records 54 Rape Cases In Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/39-Year-Old-Rapes-15-Year-Old-Girl-After-Giving-Her-Liquor-And-Shaving-Her-Pubic-Hair.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-four rape cases have been recorded in Adamawa State in three months, according to the Coordinator of Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption in the state, Hapsatu Abdullahi.<\/p>\n<p>Making the disclosure in Yola, the capital, on Tuesday during a stakeholders\u2019 engagement on sexual violence, Abdullahi said, \u201cThis figure is frightening and unacceptable because you&#8217;re talking about 18 cases per month, averagely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, an eight-year-old boy was molested through the anus by a male adult who blamed his action on his past experience with his high school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unacceptable and must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Abdullahi said that the statistics was mined from the Sexual Referral Center at the Specialist Hospital in Yola.<\/p>\n<p>She however, disclosed that the Adamawa State Government has introduced a legal framework to check rape escalation, adding that \u201cattempted rape now carries a punishment of 10 years imprisonment while actual rape attracts a punishment of 21 years in prison.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-four rape cases have been recorded in Adamawa State in three months, according to the Coordinator of Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption in the state, Hapsatu Abdullahi. Making the disclosure in Yola, the capital, on Tuesday during a stakeholders\u2019 engagement on sexual violence, Abdullahi said, \u201cThis figure is frightening and unacceptable because you&#8217;re talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,257,406],"class_list":["post-158686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-adamawa","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}