Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

09

May

Our neighbour revived me with water after raping me six times –14-year-old rape victim

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

Fourteen-year-old Jane (not real name) stared at her feet as she recounted her four-year ordeal in the hands of a neighbour, Felix Emmanuel, an Edo State indigene, who took advantage of her innocence. At 14, she explained that if she knew that the threats that had kept her quiet from disclosing what she was going through were mere lies, she would have …

09

May

Baby cancer victims’ parents lament: Our lives are filled with anguish

Joe Right to life No Comments

BY ADEMOLA OLONILUA There was a sharp contrast between the brightly lit room where the three parents gathered and the looks on the faces of its occupants. The room was painted in radiant sky-blue but the faces of the parents and child that occupied the room bore a gloom and sad look. Even though it was a sunny Monday, one that held prospects of a beautiful …

09

May

Woman sent to jail for the rest of her life after raping her four grandchildren

Joe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

A Ohio grandmother will spend the rest of her life in jail after being found guilty of the rape of her own grandchildren. Edwina Louis, 53, will spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole. The judge in the case, William T. Marshall, said in all his 19 years experience on the bench, he …

19

Apr

NGO Marks International Day For Street Children In Calabar

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

The International Day for Street Children, 12th April, 2015 has been marked in Calabar by members of Prevent Abuse of Children Today, PACT with a 15km brisk walk from IBB Way by Akim passing through Mbora street into Marian road adjoining Rabanna roundabout entering IBB Way and terminating at the beginning of IBB Way by AKim. Addressing the participants …

19

Apr

12-year-old Indian boy whose head hangs at a 180-degree angle due to a rare condition

Joe FOREIGN NEWS, Right to life No Comments

The desperate parents of a boy whose head hangs at a 180-degree angle have admitted they would rather he died than continue to suffer. Mahendra Ahirwar, 12, from Madhya Pradesh in central India, suffers from a rare condition that makes his neck bend and his head hang from his body. His weak backbone means he can’t stand or walk and is restricted …

12

Apr

Church General Overseer arrested for selling babies

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A 43-year-old General Overseer of Divine Order of Cherubim Church, Prophet Ndubuisi Okeobi has been arrested by operatives of Scorpion Squad of the Imo State police command for allegedly specialising in organising crusades where he invites pregnant women who deliver their babies in his church and thereafter sells the babies for between N300,000 …

12

Apr

Pastor, runs baby factory, sells newborn for N.3m

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested Pastor John (other names withheld) and his wife, Deborah, over alleged abduction of a new born baby. A police source, said the couple abducted the baby to allegedly sell him for N300,000.00. The pastor allegedly had a link with a child trafficking syndicate operating at Nung Ukot Itam, Itu Local …

11

Apr

Edo ringleader of child sex smuggling gang extradited to UK

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A 36-year old Nigerian mother of one, Franka Asemota, was last week arrested in Benin City, the Edo state capital, and extradited to the United Kingdom. She was accused of being Ring Leader of an International child sex smuggling gang. The arrest which was carried out by men of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) who …

11

Apr

1 Year On: Parents Of Chibok Girls Lament Life Without Daughters

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

On Wednesday, the abducted school girls from Government secondary school, Chibok in Borno state, would have been missing from their families and endured unimaginable atrocities at the hands of their their abductors, the Boko Haram sect, for one year. While some of the parents of the girls have died from anxiety and depression from their predicament, …

11

Apr

Girl, 15, two others injured in Lagos-Ibadan road crash

Joe Right to life No Comments

A 15-year-old girl and two others were critically injured on Friday in an auto crash at the popular Arepo Bus Stop on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway area of Ogun State. Commercial motorcyclists and other sympathisers rushed the injured victims to the nearest hospital for medical attention. An eyewitness said the accident, which involved a Toyota Sienna …

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