Last Monday in Ghana, 3 young girls, believed to be students of the University of Ghana, were humiliated after staff of Mr Price Clothing Store, Accra Shopping Mall caught them allegedly shoplifting panties.
The three victims, names
withheld, were made to crawl on their knees for about 200 metres from the shop
to the entrance of the mall, while an excited crowd laughed, jeered, called
them names and recorded the entire incident using their phones. According to
reports, that was after the security men on duty reportedly asked
the women whether they
preferred to crawl or be handed over to the police, to which they chose the
former.
Shaken and subdued, the young
girls told their story to MyJoyOnline.Com, that they were considering legal
action against their oppressors at Mr. Price for the inhuman treatment meted
out to the
Narrating the incident, the
ladies admitted to shoplifting, that they had gone to Mr. Price to buy some
clothes but took more than they paid for after trying them on.
Caught and faced with
embarrassment, they apologised to the staff but their plea for forgiveness was
not taken. Their offer to go home and get money to pay was also not taken. A
good Samaritan’s attempt to even pay for them was shot down by Miss
Roberta, the shop's manager, who warned him not to come any close to their
shop.
They said Miss Roberta,
made them kneel down for at least 25 minutes before barking orders at them to
crawl amidst verbal and physical abuse. She is said to have also encouraged
others to join in smacking them as they crawled four minutes from the shop to
the exit
“If
anything they should have sent us to the police station..it’s
not fair,” one of th traumatized ladies said.
Meanwhile, police has
arrested the shop's security officers involved saying, although the three women
were yet to make a formal complaint concerning their treatment at Mr Price
Clothing Store, evidence gathered by the police were enough to proceed to make
the arrest, since it contravened the laws of the country.
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