According to Sumo, he was in the latrine when he noticed the woman was naked and about to bath at the creek. "I called her to come to me, I was jammed. When she saw me she started running and I ran behind her to come to me but she ran away into the town".

He explained that as an innocent boy living with his parents, he had been encouraged by his friends to have sex. "I tried to have sex with her when I ran to her but she ran from me into the town and said I raped her".

Contrastingly, Sumo said he has decided to look for kola nuts to appeal to the woman to forgive him. "What I did was my doing and I want her to forget about it,” he confessed after earlier denial.  “I had sex with her. It is my doing”.

As for the rape survivor, she lamented, "He suffered me and I thank God I did not die.  She further explained, “I yelled, and he told me ‘If you yell I will kill you’; I cry that day".

She explained that after she recognized Sumo hiding in the bush when she went to look at her baskets at the river side, she tried running from him but he ran after her and caught her.

The survivor further narrated that she fiercely resisted Sumo from raping her, but to no avail. "He put his hand to my mouth and even started squeezing my neck, I fought back until I was tired and he came over me”.    She said she is a widow as her husband died long ago. According to her, being raped by Sumo made her to feel very bad of herself.