Armed robbers rape girls in front of their father

Six armed robbers, dressed in female apparel, last Thursday gang-raped two sisters in a house at Batsonaa near Tema after robbing the household of valuable items, including laptops and mobile phones.

The young ladies, aged 20 and 22, were raped in turns in the full glare of their father, who also sustained serious wounds in the attack.

This was after the robbers had locked up five boys who were sleeping in the boys' quarters.

Narrating this sordid ordeal to the Daily Graphic on his hospital bed, the victim, (name withheld) said the robbers struck when the family was about to retire to bed.

He said the robbers, who also made away with GH¢500, attacked the five boys and locked them up before entering the main house by forcing the door open.

The victim said he struggled with the robbers after he realized that the guns they were wielding had no bullets, but the robbers overpowered him, got hold of a shovel they found in the compound of the house and used it to inflict multiple wounds on his head, hands and legs.

According to him, in order to save his head and face from continuous battering, he used his hands to shield his head but the robbers used the shovel to hit his two legs.

He said after inflicting multiple wounds on him, the robbers raped two of his daughters, but spared a third because she screamed and fainted when she emerged from the bedroom and saw her father in a pool of blood.

He said some soldiers who received a distress call went to the scene but the robbers had bolted when they arrived.

The victim was later rushed to the Sakumono Community Hospital for treatment but was referred to the 37 Military Hospital for further treatment.

The Community 18 police are investigating the case.