Category Archives: CHILD RIGHTS

27
Mar

PAEDOPHILES EVERY WHERE: PARENTS BEWARE

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD UPBRINGING, Education, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
An older friend shared an experience with me some time ago and I haven’t been able to kick that out of my head.  She told me that she was at a church programme, like a camp vigil and a young man made his daughter sit on his crotch. The fool was lost in ecstasy while everyone was praying. However, my friend didn’t just watch in silence, she was …
23
Mar

CHILD DEFILED BY A SUPERVISOR AT CHRISLAND SCHOOL TESTIFIES IN COURT AND CONFIRMED SHE WAS DEFILED

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
Child X, the pupil allegedly defiled by Adegboyega Adenekan, a 47-year-old Chrisland School supervisor, on Thursday testified at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence court in Lagos and confirmed that she was abused. Child X, who is now four-years-old, was two years and 11-months at the time the alleged defilement occurred serially in 2016 …
16
Mar

END VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN AT DELIGHT INT’L SCHOOL, OLODI APAPA, LAGOS STATE

Joe CHILD RIGHTS, Education, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM), VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
  On Tuesday 13th March, 2018, CRACO visited Delight Int’l School to sensitize the students on the prevalence and effects of violence against children in our society. The seminar kicked off with the key speaker Barr. Ify Ihionu, introducing the topic which was: RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, and VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN. Violence against children …
13
Mar

9 year old pupil goes blind after his teacher’s cane got to his eyes while flogging him .

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD UPBRINGING, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Education, Right to life, Uncategorized, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
Before Mrs. Oluchi Adibe, 38, went to enrol her son in Good Shepherd Nursery and Primary School, located at Dikenafai in Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State, she had made inquiries and told that it was a good school. Armed with that information, she enrolled Chimbuchi Adibe in the school. According to her, all she wanted was for her son …
13
Mar

PARENTS ROLE IN PROTECTING CHILDREN AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD MARRIAGE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, CHILD UPBRINGING, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Creative Children, Education, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM), Right of women and girls, Right to life, Uncategorized, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
As CRACO continues her End Violence Against Children Campaign tour to schools, we want to remind parents that they have their roles to play in protecting their children. The rate of sexual violence against children in our society today requires that all hands must be on deck to salvage the lives and future of our children. While we do our best as a …
13
Mar

Ambode backs 25 years jail term for rapists and perpetrators of domestic violence

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday threw his weight behind the 25 years jail term for rapist and perpetrators of all forms of domestic violence, saying that the time has come to take aggressive steps to put a stop to the menace. Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top …
13
Mar

WOMAN BURNS HER 10-YEAR OLD MAID WITH HEATED PRESSING IRON AND HOT WATER

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD, Right of women and girls, Right to life, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
“She beats my children” she says Lagos State Police Command has arrested a mother of four, who allegedly burnt her 10-year-old maid with a hot pressing iron in Ikeja, on the allegation that the maid was maltreating her children in her absence. The maid also has burns she claimed to have sustained from hot water allegedly poured on her by …
10
Mar

“I DIDN’T FORCE HER” SAID MAN WHO DEFILED A 10-YEAR OLD GIRL

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments
A 30-year-old man, identified simply as Adigun, who has allegedly been defiling a 10-year-old girl for over a year, has told the police that he didn’t force the minor into having sex with him. It was learnt that Adigun has been having sex with the girl since she was just nine-year-old and was in primary five. The suspect, who is popularly called ‘rubber,’ …
10
Mar

“I DIDN’T FORCE HER” SAID MAN WHO DEFILED A 10-YEAR OLD GIRL

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD RIGHTS, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
A 30-year-old man, identified simply as Adigun, who has allegedly been defiling a 10-year-old girl for over a year, has told the police that he didn’t force the minor into having sex with him. It was learnt that Adigun has been having sex with the girl since she was just nine-year-old and was in primary five. The suspect, who is popularly called ‘rubber,’ …
08
Mar

CRACO TAKES END VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN TO CAYLEY COLLEGE, IKEJA, LAGOS

Joe CHILD ABUSE, CHILD MARRIAGE, CHILD RIGHTS, CHILD TRAFFICKING, CHILD UPBRINGING, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, Creative Children, Education, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM), Right of women and girls, Right to life, Uncategorized, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, Violence against women and girls No Comments
“THERE SHOULD BE A LIMIT WHEN DISCIPLINING A CHILD, IF NOT YOU CROSS THE LINE BETWEEN DISCIPLINE AND TORTURE” Today, CRACO held a seminar for the school children of CAYLEY College, Ikeja. The students were sensitized about what violence against children means and the effects it will have on them. Violence can affect a child for the rest of their …