{"id":596356,"date":"2026-05-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596356"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:00:00","slug":"horrifying-rape-festival-sparks-worldwide-outrage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596356","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying “Rape Festival” Sparks Worldwide Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horrifying “Rape Festival” Sparks Worldwide Outrage<\/span><\/p>\n

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Videos circulating on social media out of Nigeria have ignited shock and horror after appearing to show groups of men chasing, stripping and sexually assaulting women in broad daylight during a traditional \u201cfertility” festival in the country\u2019s southern Delta State, according to news.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incidents unfolded on March 19 during the Alue-Do festival in Ozoro, a triennial rite in the Uruamudhu community of the Ozoro Kingdom. Intended to invoke blessings for married women struggling with conception, the event involves processions to a community shrine. Local customs reportedly advise single women to remain indoors. However, footage depicted young women fleeing through crowded streets, pursued by mobs who tore at their clothing, groped them and subjected them to public humiliation while bystanders filmed and, in some cases, appeared to cheer.<\/p>\n\n

The graphic clips, which spread rapidly on platforms including X, Instagram and Facebook, have fueled national outrage, trending hashtags such as #endsexualviolence.<\/p>\n

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Delta State police have responded with arrests. Authorities confirmed that at least 15 people, including a community leader and several young men identified in the videos, are in custody, the BBC<\/a> reports. Police spokesperson Bright Edafe described the scenes as \u201calarming, disgusting and embarrassing,\u201d adding that suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for prosecution. Investigations continue, though officials noted that no formal complaints of rape have been filed to date. Some women reportedly required hospitalization.<\/p>\n

One of the alleged victims told police she was attacked within minutes of arriving at the event to the “rape festival<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately I came down, they started shouting \u2018hold her, hold her, that\u2019s a woman\u2019, and they swooped on me like bees,\u201d the alleged victim said, according to the Daily Express<\/a>. \u201cA large crowd started pulling my clothes until they stripped me naked. They were pulling my breasts and touching my whole body \u2026 I was shouting for help.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s rights activists claim this isn\u2019t the first event where mass rape has occured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just about what happened in those videos,\u201d said Rita Aiki, an activist with the Women\u2019s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative, the New York Post <\/a>reported. \u201cIt\u2019s about the conditions that make it possible for this kind of violence to happen in public, with so many people watching and no one stepping in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt tells you something about what is being normalized in a given society<\/strong>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 05\/04\/2026 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horrifying “Rape Festival” Sparks Worldwide Outrage Videos circulating on social media out of Nigeria have ignited shock and horror after appearing to show groups of men chasing, stripping and sexually assaulting women in broad daylight during a traditional \u201cfertility” festival in the country\u2019s southern Delta State, according to news.com.au. The incidents unfolded on March 19… Continue reading Horrifying “Rape Festival” Sparks Worldwide Outrage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}