Gabass victim speaks: I feel sad for his wife and kids

The teenage boy who was sodomised by the incarcerated medical doctor, Sulley Ali Gabass, has said he feels sad for the family of the man who sexually abused him.

The victim has also denied claims he was actively involved in homosexual activities before and even after he had the intercourse with the jailed doctor.

Dr Gabass was recently sentenced to a 25-year jail term after a law court found him guilty of defiling the teenager who was 15 years when the act happened in 2013.

The lad, speaking to Manasseh Azure Awuni, the journalist who investigated and broke the story, said that he had mixed feelings after the court slapped the 25-year jail term on Gabass.

“I had two mixed feelings …I was happy because, finally, justice has been served. I was also sad because he has left behind a wife, two children and a family. They will feel bad,” the victim told Manasseh.

Dr Gabass, in an earlier interview with Manasseh, had expressed similar concerns that the story would adversely affect his family and could even lead to the death of his mother.

“My mother will die, believe me. She will die because I’m the thread of hope for her. She sees me, she lives. Every other people give her grief.

“It will destroy me, it will destroy my family. Currently, I have a brother who is mentally ill and it’s been causing a lot of trouble[s] in the family…In the whole family, I’m the only one that God has elevated; yeah, and they all depend on me. I’m the seventh or so … [of] eleven siblings….Two are dead but the rest are there [alive].

“I’m the seventh and we are all boys. After me came a girl and then two girls; one is in the States (America). The rest are just in the house. My brother [recently] lost his job. The other one is mentally ill because of drugs and it’s causing … even as I went there yesterday, he had been beaten. We have to take him to the hospital.

“My mother is actually grieving. Her hope is now on me and … if this thing should come out, you know. You see, sometimes I believe you will consider the good,” Gabass narrated to Manasseh in an interview before the jail term.
The victim, however, denied claims by a section of the public that he was into homosexual activities before he met Dr Gabass.

“I am not surprised since everybody has the right to express his/her opinion when issues like this happen…I am not a bad boy,” the boy noted and categorically denied he was gay.

He insisted it was Dr Gabass who introduced him into homosexual activities and subsequently infected him with HIV.

Interestingly, though the victim tested HIV positive, Dr Gabass tested HIV negative.