In 1987, a man in Afgooye raped at least 95 girls in an orphanage and infected 53 with STDs

[Crow]

In 1987, a man in Afgooye raped at least 95 girls aged 6 to 14 in an orphanage and infected 53 with gonorrhea.

This orphanage housed 500 young girls from 6 months to 20 years old with 18 women and 4 men as guardians. The epidemic was discovered by a physician who observed vaginal discharge in a number of children. 95 female rape victims were investigated over the course of 2 weeks in September 1987.

The rapist was a male guardian and only had his sleeping room close to the dwellings of the victims for a few weeks. In that short time, he committed atrocities on an unimaginable scale. His name was withheld and it isn't mentioned if he faced any justice. The fact that the government transferred him out a week before the Somali and Italian investigation team arrived does not inspire hope.

An epidemic of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a Somali orphanage - PubMed

Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from 53 young females (6-14 years old) in a Somali orphanage. A male guardian was found to be the effective transmitter having sexually abused the children. All the bacterial isolates were of the same serogroup WI and the same serovar Aedih. This presents an...

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Abstract

Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from 53 young females (6-14 years old) in a Somali orphanage. A male guardian was found to be the effective transmitter having sexually abused the children. All the bacterial isolates were of the same serogroup WI and the same serovar Aedih. This presents an unusual example of a tight geographic cluster of infected people which is often characteristic of gonorrhoea epidemics.

PIP: The physician of an orphanage in Afgoye, 30 km from Mogadishu, Somalia, noticed vaginal discharge in 95 of the 500 girls at the orphanage in September 1987. A Somali-Italian investigative team took vaginal specimens from the 95 girls. Laboratory personnel isolated Neisseria gonorrhoea in 56% of the 95 6-14 year old females (53) who all lived in 2 adjacent dormitories. They found that all the bacterial isolates were of the N. gonorrhoea WI serogroup and Aedih serovar. The physician prescribed penicillin treatment for all the girls. Contact tracing revealed that a male guardian was the source of gonorrhea. Some children had already accused him of sexually abusing them. Orphanage officials had transferred him 1 week before the arrival of the investigative team. His room had been very near to the 2 dormitories for only a few weeks before the investigative team arrived. In this short time, his sexual abuse effected this cluster of infections. This supports the present theory of gonorrhea epidemiology that a core group of infectious people are most likely responsible for most, if not all, of the continuing endemicity of gonorrhea. The infection rate was in range of the estimated probability of transmission (50-70%) during sexual intercourse from an infectious male to a female. The results showed that high resolution typing of gonococci has in addition to its scientific value a more practical value; forensic medicine and illustration that gonorrhea consists of smaller microepidemics.

 

[Vanessa]

This is sickening!

 

[Manafesto]

The more you read about Somalia's civil atrocities the more disgusting aspects of some Somalis commited you come to find out, I wonder why none of the kids reported him.

@Crow is he alive still? was he an ethnic Somali or Bantu?

Walahi a public execution by his victims like that old Hollywood movie is a great sight to watch.

 

[Ismail Khan]

Was he Somali ?

 

[Cigaal Timacadde]

In 1987, a man in Afgooye raped at least 95 girls aged 6 to 14 in an orphanage and infected 53 with gonorrhea.

This orphanage housed 500 young girls from 6 months to 20 years old with 18 women and 4 men as guardians. The epidemic was discovered by a physician who observed vaginal discharge in a number of children. 95 female rape victims were investigated over the course of 2 weeks in September 1987.

The rapist was a male guardian and only had his sleeping room close to the dwellings of the victims for a few weeks. In that short time, he committed atrocities on an unimaginable scale. His name was withheld and it isn't mentioned if he faced any justice. The fact that the government transferred him out a week before the Somali and Italian investigation team arrived does not inspire hope.

An epidemic of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a Somali orphanage - PubMed

Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from 53 young females (6-14 years old) in a Somali orphanage. A male guardian was found to be the effective transmitter having sexually abused the children. All the bacterial isolates were of the same serogroup WI and the same serovar Aedih. This presents an...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Sickening, literally. You warned me about this yesterday, and yet reading the details made literally feel sick.

This was the Faqash government, which itself was encouraging the raping of people all over the country and especially in the north, at this particular time. I would've been shocked if they had handled this properly.

 

[Cigaal Timacadde]

Was he Somali ?

Does it matter? it happened to little Somali girls on Somali people's watch.