Three armed bandits have attacked a psychiatric home in Kanifing South, leaving behind trails of rape, theft and torture, the Daily Observer can reveal.

This callous incident occurred in the wee hours of last Saturday, when the staff and psychiatric patients at the Body and Mind Clinic were deep asleep in bed.

Two of the arrested suspects, identified as Modou Lamin Secka and Tony Senghore, who live in the neighbourhood, were said to have a documented history of criminal activities.
They were arrested later in the afternoon, after their victims lodged complaints at the Kanifing East Police Station.

The Daily Observer discovered trails of footprints at a semi-forested backyard, where the bandits scaled over a white painted fence, before they forcefully unlocked the back door to carry out their dastardly activities.
A 27-year-old Susana Smith, who’s reported to have been repeatedly sexually- molested by the two bandits, had her eyes stained with haematoma (accumulation of blood), after one of the suspects, Modou Lamin Secka, allegedly plugged into her eyes his fingers to satisfy himself.

Explaining the incident in an interview with the Daily Observer at the scene over the weekend, Ms Smith, who is a staff at the Body and Mind Clinic, said she thought it was a dream when she felt a firm hand on her neck in her bed at around 3:00 am. She said she was strangulated by Modou Lamin Secka, who pulled out a knife threatening to stab her with if she had made a noise. “He told me keep quite. If you shout, I will chuck you. I told him what do you want,” she said.
According to her, Modou later firmly placed a pillow on her face, before she suddenly felt fingers in her eyes, as if they were being plugged out. She said she then became suffocated and too weak to resist anymore. “It was then that he started sexing me,” she told the Daily Observer.

Ms Smith recalled that Modou Lamin Secka then lit a torch on her face and asked for money. She said the attackers took unquantified amount of money received on charity to run the home. According to her, Modou Lamin Secka later jumped on her again and raped her, before Tony Senghore took his turn. “I was weak and I could not move. It was my mother who told me they have gone,” Susana Smith said.

Also explaining her experience, Sabina Smith, Head of Body and Mind Clinic and a mother to Susana, said she suffered brutality in the hands of two of the attackers. Ms Smith said the two men tied clothe around her neck and stretched out, leading to her suffocation. She explained that said fearfully told them “don’t you know I can be your mother. Don’t you I can have you as a son”. However, she said bandits never budged and demanded for money which they took away. She said they also went away with two mobile phones, DVD player, and all the foodstuff in the fridge.

Ms Smith, who also sustained haematoma in her eyes, said they then locked them up in the room with knife screwed in the padlock. “We spent the whole night praying to God to save us. I and my daughter then forcefully opened up the door,” she explained.
Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Sulayman Secka, told the Daily Observer that their investigations were going on smoothly. However, he confirmed that the third suspect was yet to be arrested.

A medical doctor who spoke to the Daily Observer under condition of anonymity, said the raped victim would have a series of tests, including HIV, STD, hymen examination and laceration, virginal swap, among others. He said other tests, such as pregnancy test, could be conducted after six days to establish whether any fertilisation has occurred. He said these tests are important to substantiate the evidence on rape.