13-year-old Ochanya Ogbaje, who recently died of Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) and other complications at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi after being allegedly raped repeatedly from age nine by her aunt's husband, Andrew Ogbuja, Head of Department, Catering and Hotel Management at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, and his son, Victor Ogbuja, a final year student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.13-year-old Ochanya Ogbaje, who recently died of Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) and other complications at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi after being allegedly raped repeatedly from age nine by her aunt's husband, Andrew Ogbuja, Head of Department, Catering and Hotel Management at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, and his son, Victor Ogbuja, a final year student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.

Monday Agbonika/

The Night you came for me was the night I died
I didn’t know what your eyes saw when they looked at me
And the moment you held me I had lost control of everything
My pride, my dignity
Perhaps you were pleasured, but I was wounded, scarred and bruised.

The morning after I thought about it, oh how I cried
The words of my parents echoed in my ears “obey them and do whatever they ask you to so they’d train you to be a great woman” And the little thoughts I couldn’t comprehend that told me to let it all go vanished so did my tears
for a while.

But I didn’t know did I?
Night after night you came, Night after night my healing wounds were renewed, there was no one to turn to
This was painful beyond measure
I was but a little girl but in your eyes you saw a woman with something you needed.

Until that day
finally came, The day I was set free
As I lay on my hospital bed, Freedom at last as my final breath I pulled.
Oh take Me home father, take me home

Dedicated to #Ochanya and every poor child that has been abused.. May her soul rest in peace
#End_Child_Abuse

*Agbonika, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, tweeted the poem on the handle, @monlena2000

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