He rubbed his genital in my face, pulled my dress up, sodomized me – Beauty queen accuses former president of rape

Fatou Jallow, a 23-year old former beauty queen from The Gambia, told
the BBC that she was sodomized by Yaya Jammeh, the country’s former
president.
After 22 years in power, Jammeh was ousted by fellow leaders in the
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), in January 2017,
with Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari playing a pivotal role.
Jallow said the then president had slapped her, injected her with a
needle, before,
“He rubbed his genitals in my face, pushed me down to my knees, pulled
my dress up and sodomized me.” She said he was tempered into the act
because she had earlier rejected a marriage proposal from him. Jallo
said the ordeal began when she won a beauty pageant in Banjul, the
country’s capital at the age of 18 in 2014.
She recounted that Jammeh acted like a father in the months which
followed. He gave her gifts and money, as well as getting running
water installed in her family home. At a dinner organised by an aide
of the president, Jallow said Jammeh now 54, asked her to marry him.
She would go on rebuffing other enticements. In June 2015, the said
aid insisted that she attends a religious ceremony at State House in
her role as a beauty queen.
She said she was taken to Jammeh’s private residence: “It was clear
what this was going to be,” she said, remembering the anger in the
exiled Jammeh who became president after a military coup when he was
29. Jallow said she had tried to keep this memory to herself but found
it impossible to bury anymore:
A former official in the Gambian government who spoke on the condition
of anonymity said he remembered seeing Jallow at ‘odd hours’. He also
said there were protocol staff, who were mainly women on call to
fulfill Jammeh’s fantasies.
This same point of view is held by the Human Rights Watch and Trial
international, two organisations gathering evidence of human right
violations of the ex-president.
They said Jammeh had a system in place to abuse women, where some were
put on the state payroll and worked at State House as so-called
“protocol girls”.
The two bodies said the girls had some clerical duties but were mainly
on call to have sex with the president.
Jammeh has been a guest of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo the 36-year
long president of Equatorial Guinea, since his exile.