SARATU: Brothers locks sister up for 5 months after she got pregnant outside wedlock

SARATU: Getting pregnant outside marriage can pose much be a stigma especially when the victim’s family is not financially buoyant.

It becomes torn to their flesh and makes them feel that the victim is either not useful or she has low self-esteem.

In this story, a woman was locked by her relatives for five months, it is recalled that she has been rescued.

In this, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Gombe state rescued the 35-year-old woman over the weekend.

The Saratu Ayuba of Bolari quarters in Gombe metropolis was rescued following a tip by the neighbors after they learned of the inhuman condition she was subjected to by her brothers in their family house.

The eyewitnesses said that Saratu was chained and locked up alongside her two_month_old daughter inside an unhygienic, single room at their family house at Bolari quarters in the metropolis.

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Saratu, who appeared visibly emaciated without proper clothing, said she was only given tea and bread once a day for the last five months she had been locked up in the room.

Due to her unhealthy condition, she couldn’t produce enough breast milk to feed her daughter, she said.

Afterward, she said that her former husband was responsible for the pregnancy, adding that he did it deliberately to force her brothers to get her back to their house. She said her former husband had divorced her twice.

She has also said that she has two other children, Alkasim, ten, and Fatima, 8, from her first marriage.

Saturn’s elder brother, Muhammed Tajudden, told reporters that they locked her in the room after she was diagnosed with a mental illness.

Satura had suffered rejection, trauma, and depression at the time she was confined. Her life was shattered. Thank God that she is finally rescued