Lagos government takes over case of homeless teenage mother who contracted COVID-19
A homeless teenage mother who tested positive for COVID-19 in Lagos after giving birth has received support from the Lagos State Government.
The Coordinator of Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi told Neusroom that the agency is now handling the case.
Neusroom had reported that the 16-year-old girl said she was gang raped by four men in a motor park in Ijesha area of Lagos and was delivered of a baby girl last week in Surulere where it was detected that she is COVID-19 positive.
An Instagram user shared a video of the teenager at the Gbagada isolation centre recounting how she ended up in a garage after losing contact with the woman who brought her to Lagos from Saki, in Oyo State.
The details of her ordeal which she recounted in the video left many social media users horrified as they started showing interest in helping her.
As if the ordeal of the homeless teenage mother was not enough, she also tested positive for coonavirus after she was delivered of a baby girl and was transferred to the Gbagada Isolation Centre with her baby.
She had said her rapists are people she knows and sees daily at the motor park.
The DSVRT has, however, said it is handling the teenager’s case.
