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Bauchi,
Bauchi State.
7th July 2007.
A woman hastily walked into a hospital with a limp girl in her arms. "Help! Someone should help me please" She yelled as she ran to the emergency section. Her voice cracked at the end of the sentence as tears sting her eyes.
A couple of nurses all but ran towards her, taking the girl out of her hands and onto one of the empty beds there. The woman tried to follow them but one of the nurses held her back. "I'm sorry ma'am, I can't let you in. Let the doctors do their job"
The woman hesitated but nodded after a while. She glanced at where the girl lays, with the doctors checking up on her, cleaning the blood that stained her body. "Please help her" She pleaded, eyes moving back to the nurse in front of her.
The nurse nodded, "Are you related to the patient ma'am?"
This time around, the woman didn't hesitate, "Yes. She's my daughter" She lied, letting it roll off her tongue ever so fluently. Maybe she shouldn't have lied in such a situation but she felt like everything will be much easier to explain if she claimed that the girl is her daughter. Whomsoever her real parents are, they'll deal with that issue once she's out of harm's way.
The nurse nodded again before she walked back to the others to help them.
The woman gulped and watched them from a safe distance as they did their job. All the while, all she could do was pray to Allah to save the girl's life.
That was the least she could do at the moment. So, she prayed over and over again.
~*~
"I know right. It's so sad what happened to her" One of the nurses said to her colleagues as they stood over the girl's body. A look of sympathy etched on all their faces.
"Abun ma ba dadin ji. She just a little girl for Allah's sake" Her friend replied. "How could someone rape a twelve-year-old?" The woman hissed as she shook her head, muttering some curses at whoever did it—who was still unknown at the time.
The other nurse that stood with them raised the sheet that covered the girl's clad body and covered her face with it while she blinked back her tears. She doesn't think she could ever get used to such cases.
This made the other nurses snap their eyes towards her.
"Kinyi hauka ne?" The first one asked, yanking the sheet back to its original position. "You'll make people think she's dead or something for Allah's sake" She scolded the woman that looked down. A newbie they got from ATBUTH. This is one of the reasons they hated having newbies from the teaching hospital these days. All they do is flaunt around with their empty brains forming 'big girls' when in reality, they have nothing in their head.
