Four classmates allegedly gang-raped a 10-year-old girl and shared the video online. From March 8 to 14, students from Lagos’ Chrisland School competed in the World School Games in Dubai. As a result of the hotel room incident, the school has disciplined all five students, according to the child’s mother.

But when a parent showed her the graphic video, she realised it was an unconsensual attack. ‘My daughter died silently and couldn’t speak,’ her mother said today. The alleged gang-rape was captured on Instagram. After the victim’s mother complained about the school’s response, her daughter was suspended.

The girls’ mother said: ‘To crown it all, because we have started confronting them and started telling them we are aware of what happened, they now sent her a suspension letter.’

The four other pupils featured in the video were also suspended. Chrisland has been ordered closed while Lagos investigates. The girl’s mother claimed the school forced her daughter to take a pregnancy test to check for Covid.

A statement by the school’s advisory board stated: ‘We are proud to reassure our stakeholders that no rape of anyone or the administration of a pregnancy test on any child took place on our watch’, according to Sahara Reporters.

It added: ‘To insinuate that a pregnancy test was carried out on a student, for whatever reason, therefore, is a highly unfortunate conjecture.’ They stated that they are willing to sanction’scientific or forensic inspections,’ and added, ‘We are certain this will lay to rest any shred of doubt or hazy optic that the current flurry of activities might have occasioned.”‘