Missing 19-year-old Nigerian activist found dead after tweeting about her Sexual Assault
Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester, has been found dead days after tweeting that a man who offered her a ride to church, had molested her in Tallahassee, Florida.
She was last seen on June 6, 2020, at a demonstration in the Tallahassee area, according to the Police Department.
Hours prior to being reported missing, Salau tweeted that she had been molested by a man while looking for a place to stay after the demonstration. She added that she had called the authorities to report what had happened.
Before her death, the teenager had emerged as a leading voice in recent protests throughout the area.
View her tweets:
Toyin’s last tweets were posted on June 6. She narrated on Twitter how she was sexually assaulted that day by a man who offered her a ride when she was stranded after the Black Lives Matter protest.
Toyin, a race activist, took part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the Tallahassee area on June 6. Afterwards, she said a Black man disguised as a man of God offered to give her a ride to church to pick up her things. He ended up subjecting her to sexual assault.
She tweeted about it and revealed that she reported it to the police.
Unfortunately, she went missing afterwards and was later found dead.
Below are tweets from her friends announcing her death and Toyin’s last tweets revealing she was sexually assaulted:
