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Senegal shopkeeper referred over alleged rape of five minors

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A 32-year-old shopkeeper, Amadou Diallo, was brought before the Bignona prosecutor's office after an investigation into allegations of paedophilia, unnatural acts and repeated rapes involving five minors from Tenghory. The suspect allegedly lured the teenagers into his shop by offering them goods, reports Senenews.

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