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 3

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