(Case # 123 at COGWO Doc. Centre)

Name: Murayo Nor ali

Sex: female

Age: 7 years old (Now 10 Years)

Date of assault: 03/03/2002 at 11:00 am morning.

Date of interview: 14/03/2002

Place of assault: Waberi district, Mogadishu

Type of VAW: Child Rape

Narration of the incident: (Quotation from her father)

  “Quote” “ I live in Waberi district in Mogadishu , I sent my daughter of 7 years old to buy cooking oil from a nearby shop. Before you reach the shop, you will have to pass some old buildings which were ruined in the civil war. After my daughter being away for 30 minutes from the house, I heard screaming and crowds of people shouting while some of the people in the crowd were calling out my name ! Nur.. Nur.. Then, I stood up and went outside to see the situation. Immediately, I found some people carrying up my daughter bleeding and I took her to the nearest pharmacy to get her injected with vitamin K to stop bleeding.

After the bleeding had stopped, I took my daughter to SOS Hospital in Mogadishu for treatment. The case of my daughter was submitted to COGWO Documentation Centre since as I understand there was working relationship between the Hospital and the Documentation Centre. While I was in SOS Hospital , I was approached by COGWO Doc. Centre human rights data collectors who took us (my daughter and myself) to Alfurqan Clinic in Mogadishu where we have met Dr. Gandhi. After the necessary diagnosis on my daughter, Dr. Gandhi declared that my 7 year old daughter was inhumanely raped. The Doctor also stated that both the genital and the rectum of my daughter were all opened up through beyond recognition.

“Unquote”

Action taken by COGWO:

  1. Medical Remedy:

  COGWO Doc. Centre provided with this small girl victim of 7 years old with regular medical support because the victim (Murayo Nur Ali) can not control its stool and is also unaware when the stool and urine is coming through.

2.Nutritional Support:

Medical support in Mogadishu have prescribed COGWO to provide the victim with nutritional support regularly during treatment

3.Legal Remedy:

COGWO has made the necessary documentation of this awful case of Murayo Nur Ali aged 7 years old at the documentation centre. Also, COGWO has carried out the necessary investigation into the case by meeting four ( 4) eye-witness people who are willing to testify the case in front of court (any legal system) in the future when an effective Somali Government is in place. The eye-witness persons had signed the investigation narrative document/form.

4) Counseling:

The victim aged 7 years old became mentally unfit because of the extra-ordinary sexual assault (Rape). COGWO invites the victim along with her father to both an individual and group counseling which is held at COGWO training hall in Mogadishu .

COGWO Recommendation:

COGWO Documentation Centre would highly recommend for the victim to be taken abroad for treatment since the Medical Doctor who made the diagnosis of the case confirmed that the case can not be treated in Somalia and thus prescribed her to be treated outside the country.

N.B: Please find here below the Doctor's declaration & prescription.

English Version from the Original

To: COGWO

Subject: Declaration about Murayo Nur Ali

I would like to declare here that Murayo Nur Ali a girl aged 7 years old is a victim of rape who was severely wounded by the rapist, as the result of the raping act, her genital organ and rectum was extraordinarily opened up beyond recognition of the usual perennial laceration of I° (Grade 1), II° (Grade 2), and III° (Grade 3).

Due to severity of her case and the inability to treat her in the country, I would highly recommend for the victim to be taken abroad for treatment particularly specialist for perennial plastic.

Dr. Ibrahim Mao Osman
Senior Obstetric & Gynecology Specialist
Mogadishu , Somalia

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