A 12-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her 25-year-old step brother, Abdullahi Mohammed and his friends at her father’s house in Jahi district in Abuja has contracted the dreaded HIV/AIDS disease.

Daily Trust reports that the victim’s father and mother separated and the father married another woman who already had a son from a previous relationship.

The girl (name withheld), narrated her ordeal, saying her father married her step mother who has a son.

“We were living peacefully,” she said, “until one night when I was lying on the floor and brother, Abdullahi came and started fondling my breasts. When he didn’t see breasts, he said he would suck them until they came out. When I objected, he raped me.

“My step brother started raping me when I was 8 and each time he raped me, he would threaten to kill me if I told our father.

“He used a handkerchief to wipe off the blood that was coming out from my private part. He threatened to slash my throat if I told anybody. I didn’t tell anybody and it continued. He raped me every night; and sometimes he brought his friends, especially Ahmed along with him to rape me,” she sobbed.

The girl said she feared she would be killed by her step brother or suffer maltreatment from her step mother if she told anyone what he was doing to her.

She was diagnosed with AIDS after her father took her to the hospital following her constant poor state of health. Doctors carried out various test on her and discovered she had HIV/AIDS.

Her father, who was very angry at this development, sought to know how she contracted the deadly disease and she revealed that her step brother, Abdullahi and his friends, had raped her for four years. Subsequently, her father reported the case to the police at Mabushi.

The duo was arrested and they reportedly confessed to the crime.

Unveiling the Police report, the two suspects were taken to the hospital and their medical reports came out HIV negative.

It is however speculated that the girl’s mother was HIV positive when she had her.

The Mabushi divisional police officer, Chief Superintendent Ayobami Surajudeen, confirmed the report and said, “Having gotten medical reports, the case would now be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.”

A police source said, “She was not tested when she was an infant, and maybe she was HIV positive from birth. Her half-brother confessed that he was the first man to have had sex with the victim and how she got that HIV still remains a mystery.”