Category Archives: CHILD ABUSE

50 – YEAR STUDY PROVES SPANKING CHILDREN IS JUST AS BAD AS PHYSICAL ABUSE

  “I would never discipline my kids by hitting them, but I have no problem with spanking”. Have you ever heard or maybe even used that logic? Parents, caregivers and scientists alike have always debated whether it is right or wrong to use spanking as discipline. After 50 years of research, psychologists have confirmed that spanking children produces …

MAN RAPED AND FORCED DAUGHTER INTO MARRIAGE

A 14-year-old girl (names withheld) has accused her father, Olawale Ibitoye, of raping and forcing her into marriage. The incident occurred at 9, Olulu Close, Ketu, Epe, a Lagos suburb. The victim made the allegation at a traditional birth centre she was taken to during labour. It was gathered that Ibitoye also forced the girl to marry one Moses Okurukpe, …

MAN TO SPEND 50 YEARS IN PRISON FOR DEFILING 14-YEAR OLD GIRL

Sunday Salami, a 31-year-old furniture maker will spend the next half a century languishing in Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos, for defiling a 14-year-old Junior Secondary School 1 student. Justice Sybil Nwaka of an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court sentenced Salami after convicting him of defilement contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law …

YOUNG MOTHER ARRESTED FOR THROWING HER 12-DAY OLD BABY INTO A PIT TOILET

A 21 year old young mother identified as Amudalat Taiwo has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command, for throwing her 12-day-old baby into a pit toilet in Ilaro, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of the state. The police said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from her landlord, Oshunshina Olawale. The state Police Public Relations …

MOTHER OF 3 BATH 10-YEAR OLD ORPHAN WITH HOT PEPPER

Mother of three, Mrs Ijeoma Eze-Ezirike has reportedly bathed her housemaid, a 10-year-old orphan, Onyinye Nwaogu, with hot pepper after beating her because she went with her madam’s children to the house of the children’s class teacher. According to eyewitness reports, the incidence took place at No. 1 Timileyin Avenue, Jikwoyi, Phase 1 Extension, …

22-YEAR OLD MAN REMANDED FOR DEFILING A 7-YEAR OLD GIRL

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded a 22-year-old trader, Moses Austine, at Kirikiri prisons for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl. Magistrate Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, refused to take the plea of the accused and ordered that he should be kept behind bars pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Austine, …

I only inserted my finger, says man accused of defling 15 year old girl

Emmanuel Okorie, a driver who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation levelled against him by Lagos State Government. The defendant, who is standing trial on a count charge before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere yesterday, told the court that he did not defile the teenager. Okorie, who was testifying …

CRACO ‘END VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN’ AT GREAT ECSTASY PRIVATE SCHOOL, LAGOS

CRACO took #EndViolenceAgainstChildren Campaign to Great Ecstasy Private School, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos. We believe that Awareness is superior to enforcement. When Children are aware of their rights, how to identify signs of violation, and what to do when about to be violated or when violated, it will go a long way to reducing the rising cases of violence …

MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN IMPRISON FOR DEFILING 12-YEAR OLD GIRL

A Lagos state High Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos state, on Monday convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man, Kingsley Inyang, to life imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl. In his ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya convicted and found the accused guilty of defiling the girl, a junior secondary school (JSS) two pupil, contrary …