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I falsely accused my boyfriend of rape because he is Nigerian – South African woman confesses

A young woman from South Africa has disclosed that her family coerced her into filing false rape charges against her former Nigerian boyfriend, who had impregnated her.

She revealed that relationships between Nigerians and South Africans were considered a taboo and that prompted her family’s actions.

Consequently, her boyfriend was wrongfully sentenced to six months in prison.

However, she later confessed to authorities that the Nigerian was indeed her boyfriend and had not committed the alleged crime.

“I was 19 and he was 3 years older than me. And I mean back then…you all know…even now dating Nigerian men is a taboo. You know you would be called names and what not… I was still young and when he got me pregnant. I was forced to lay charges against him by…lets just say family. Its a long story but let me cut it short. He was falsely accused of raping me but he didn’t rape me. I wanted to tell the truth and when I got the chance he was arrested for 7 or 8 months. I told the officers investigating the case that this was my boyfriend and he is the father of this child. And they said to us… “okay we need to wait for the child to be born. And if the DNA text comes positive that he is the father, will try him out of this case. Should he be lying that he is the father of the child for example, he will be sentenced. And then the baby was born and the DNA test came out positive,” the young lady explained.

She said his boyfriend now had to travel to Europe to ease himself of the trauma and later travelled to London.

She further indicated that she also got married to someone but lied to her husband that the father of her first child had passed.

This same information was relayed to her son when he also grew up.

“All his life has been in Europe and he move to London, And then when he came back I was already married at that time. And the honest truth I told this husband that the father of my first child had passed away. Now am living a reality. And when the baby grew up I told him “Your father passed”. She added.

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