The Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded five students of Adeyemi College of Education, in the state for allegedly gang-raping a female student of the school.
The victim is a 22-year-old student in the Department of History/English and was allegedly raped outside the campus in turn by the suspects.
She is also an estranged girlfriend to one of the suspects, Timilehin Akinola of the social studies department in the same college.
The suspects, Olagbaju Tobi, Akinola Timilehin, Adeyemi Adebisi and Eric Nwage and Adetuyi Olakunle, according to the police, carried out the dastardly act at Road 17, Funbi-Fagun Housing Estate, Ondo town on Monday last week.
The suspects were alleged to have recorded the illicit sexual act on video and threatened the victim that they would upload the footage online if she reported the matter to anybody.
The Ondo State Police Commissioner, Mrs. Hilda Harrison, while parading the suspects, said the victim had been taken to Ile-Ife, Osun State where she was receiving treatment, declaring that the suspects would be charged to court.
According to her, “ The victim was raped and during the act, one of the suspects Adetuyi Adekunle did the video recording of the heinous crime as they took on their victim one after the other and later abandoned her to go with a threat that they would use charms on her if she revealed the incident to anyone.
“The case was reported to the school (ACE) authority and the suspect were arrested, the case has been transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation.”
The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Moses Akinfolarin denied knowledge of the incident when contacted.