The inhabitants of Malika, (a suburb of Dakar), woke up on January 1, 2025 in excitement and dismay. Indeed, a 12-year-old girl named Diarry Sow was found dead in atrocious conditions in the bathroom of an apartment located in the same neighborhood.
According to the explanations of her uncle Aliou Laye, the young girl was found in a room in atrocious conditions in a bathroom. “I don’t know what exactly happened. Usually the children in this house don’t go out at night. I had passed her at the gate and she asked me to buy her a firecracker and I said to wait for me, after chatting with my friends I went straight back, took a bath and am in bed. When her absence was noticed, they would search for her all night, but she could not be found. We found him this morning. The cleaning lady who discovered the girl’s lifeless body said she found her naked in the bathroom, according to rumors she was raped and then killed, but I don’t don’t know any more. How can you inflict this on a 12-year-old girl and murdered her,” lamented the victim’s uncle.
“The one suspected of being the perpetrator of this crime is a thug, not long ago he stole a neighbor’s phone, he asked her to lend him the phone to make a call and that’s how he left with it and sold it. He lives in the neighborhood, but relations between him and I are not good, we had a dispute over a sum of 200,000 CFA francs. I don’t know much about him, but he must be around 37 years old, he lives in the neighborhood with his mother. He was abroad, because of his illegal practices, he was repatriated to Senegal. When the girl’s body was found, it was found that he had already left the scene. His name is Elhadji Fall,” explained Aliou Laye.
