Missing 19-year-old protester found dead after tweeting about assault

Missing 19-year-old protester found dead after tweeting about assault

- Olwatoyin "Toyin" Salau has been found dead by the City of Tallahassee Police Department days after she went missing

- Before she was declared missing, the 19-year-old BLM protester had tweeted about how a man sexually molested her

- The news of her death was made known on Twitter by a lady called Ashey with the handle @laurecapri

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A 19-year-old Nigerian Black Lives Matter protester, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau has reportedly been found dead days after she was declared missing in Tallahassee, Florida.

The City of Tallahassee Police Department on Sunday, June 14 said that they found two bodies on Saturday night, June 13.

Though the police never released the details of dead bodies, a close friend of Oluwatoyin has said that one of the found bodies was hers.

It should be noted that Oluwatoyin was last seen on Saturday, June 6, the day she wrote about how a man molested her.

A collage of Oluwatoyin's pictures. Photo source: Twitter/Oluwatoyin
A collage of Oluwatoyin's pictures. Photo source: Twitter/Oluwatoyin
Source: UGC
“Anyways I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave.
“The man offered to give me a ride to find someplace to sleep and recollect my belongings from a church I refuged to a couple days back to escape unjust living conditions," she said

See her tweets below:

Meanwhile, Briefly.co.za earlier reported that Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) condemned the criminal acts of molestation that have become rampant in the country.

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It was gathered that the Nigerian cleric during a live broadcast on Dove Television on Sunday, June 14, said every form of punishment that could be given to a rapist, cannot be considered too severe.

Speaking in the message that was shared on the church's social media platform, Pastor Adeboye said there is hardly any crime more grievous than that of rape, maybe with the possible exception of murder.

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Source: Briefly News

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