number of undertakings were made; That, against all
expectations, Mr. T.R set aside the undertakings he had just
made and summoned him to the gendarmerie;
When questioned by the investigating officers of the abovementioned unit, S.D explained that, one day, D.A had come
to her aunt's husband's home to stock up on eggs and that
after taking two egg packets and handing over the sum of
five thousand, D.A followed her inside when she came back
to deposit the said sum on the table and took her by surprise
by having sexual intercourse with her on the living room
couch; She added that she had sexual intercourse with the
accused only on two occasions;
That one month after the sexual act was committed, she did
not see her menstrual period and that she went to D.A's place
of work to inform him of this; That on that day, she had
requested a sum of one thousand francs from the accused and
that she went to the CSPS for a pregnancy test which proved
to be positive; That she brought this information to the
attention of the DA, who in return recommended an
abortion; That from the outset, she agreed and D.A brought
a product to her home and explained the dosage; That after
using it, she noticed drops of blood coming out of her sex;
That D.A then sent his friend K. with the sum of one
thousand five hundred francs and proposed to take her to a
neighbourhood of Koupèla or to Ouagadougou to have an
abortion, but she refused for fear that her aunt's husband
might get informed; That as her pregnancy progressed, she
asked D.A to come and inform her aunt's husband;
When heard in her turn by the above-mentioned unit, S.S,
the victim's aunt, explained that the man called D.A had
sexually abused his niece in their house on the couch and
that her niece was currently pregnant; She explained that the
act committed by D.A was rape, because, according to the
victim, D.A had forced her to sleep with him; she added that,
according to her niece's statements, one month after the
sexual act, D.A had returned to give a black product to her
niece so that she could abort, while indicating to the victim
that her doctor had instructed him to have sexual intercourse
before introducing the product into her genitals; In
conclusion, still according to her niece's statements, D.A had
broken an egg and applied it all over her niece's body; That
after several abortion attempts that had caused bleeding in
the victim's sex, D.A sent one of her friends named K, to
give the sum of CFAF 1,500 (one thousand five hundred) for
a pregnancy test and asked her if she consented to an
abortion; That in the end it was D.A who came back to try to
convince her niece to abort by reassuring her that she did not
need to worry about it, because his friend who carries out
abortions in Ouagadougou, had already succeeded with two
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