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| Miss Chinelo
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Nigerian teenage lady, Chinelo who was raped
by her own cousin, leaving her hymen intact but resulted in a pregnancy.
Chinelo, a fair-complexioned young lady, narrated
to Saturday Vanguard how her second cousin, Onyeka, put her in the family way.
She had gone to her mother’s cousin’s house in Ihiala, Anambra state for her
UME exams and had slept on the same bed with her second cousin, Onyeka.
According to her, “I woke very late, very dizzy even his mother
noticed and asked me whether I was feeling alright that morning. I told her I
was okay but when I went to the bathroom, I discovered I was wet but did not
feel any pain. I asked him but he smiled and waved it off. I did not disclose
to anybody. I just cleaned up. “I finished my mensuration five days before
then. I also wrote my NECO there but left after a week I finished my exams. I
went back to Onitsha, and on the 27th of July, I came to Lagos to my sister’s
house. There I missed my period. I told her and she advised that we should wait
for some days, saying it might be a shift,” Chinelo said.
Chinelo began to notice symptoms of
pregnancy after a month. “A month later, I felt sick. My sister and I thought
it was malaria. But what later convinced my sister was when I started
vomitting. Our neighbour advised we should go to the hospital. My sister
obliged and we went to General Hospital, Aguda. They even gave me money for the
test.
“It was on Sunday, so the lab personnel did
not come. We returned home and went back the following day. A test was
conducted and we waited for about 30 minutes. When the result came out, they
wrote ‘malaria not seen and pregnancy positive’.
“While waiting, my sister had also taken
her sick daughter to see a doctor. I approached a woman sitting close to me to
explain the result to me and she looked at me and asked whose result was it,
saying it indicates pregnancy. When my sister came, I gave it to her and she
asked how come I became pregnant.
“I told her I didn’t know that I didn’t
have a boyfriend. She took me to their head nurse who also is a counsellor. She
tried to convince me but I maintained my position knowing it was the truth.
They decided to take a virginity test on me with the aid of a machine. The
result came out and it was confirmed that I am still virgin,” she narrated.
Then the pressure came. The medical team
and her sister probed further and Chinelo broke the ice saying: “I remembered
the incident in my aunty’s house and I asked whether if someone was wet without
making love could result into pregnancy? They asked me who was with me and I
told them how I saw myself wet that morning when I woke up. I further told them
how I drank the juice and slept off. I did not know what happened again.
The medical team and her sister concluded
that pregnancy could occur without a penetrative intercourse since her
virginity was intact.
Question – Could pregnancy really occur
without a penetrative intercourse?
