Category Archives: CHILD ABUSE

14
Mar

TRADITIONAL HEALER – PASTOR RAPES DAUGHTER OF PATIENT

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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command on Tuesday arrested a 60-year-old pastor who doubles as a traditional healer, Mr. Udo Job, for raping a 14-year-old daughter of one of his patients. The girl had visited her sick father when the man sexually assaulted her. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Gabriel Achong, who was represented by the Assistant …
21
Feb

21 Year-Old Student In Court For Alleged Rape Of 8 Year Old Girl

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A 21-year old student, Ahmed Musa, on Thursday appeared before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Katsina for alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl. Musa, according to Police First Information Report (FIR), committed the offence at about 2.30 p.m. on Feb. 5. The report stated that one Sakina Muhammad of Kofar-yamma Quarters in Zango reported the matter …
14
Feb

No Child Abuse, Trafficking in North-East IDP Camps, Says NEMA

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By Daji Sani in Yola. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) coordinator in North-East, Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, has refuted a media reports that some camps of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are engaged in child abuse and trafficking, Bello told journalists in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, on Friday that there has not been any …
13
Feb

13-year-old pupil gets pregnant after being raped

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The police have arraigned a 27-year-old man, Tope Akintade, for impregnating a primary three pupil, Beatrice (pseudonym), after he allegedly raped her. Akintade and Beatrice, an orphan, are neighbours at a compound on Baale Street, Agboju, Kuje in the Amuwo area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the 13-year-old victim was outside washing plates in …
07
Feb

Fight Against Boko Haram Turns Children Into ‘Soldiers’, Spies

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By Philip Obaji Jr.   More than five years of fighting in north eastern Nigeria has produced a replay of Africa’s catastrophic history. Nearly 10,000 have died and over one million people have been displaced. Many schools have been closed, abduction of girls is on the rise and another ghost of wars past is reappearing: the recruitment of child …
03
Feb

PASTOR CAUGHT HAVING SEX WITH 15-YEAR OLD GIRL

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A fugitive task force in Oklahoma tracked down a pastor accused of having s*x with an underage girl. Damien Bonner, a senior pastor at Galilee Baptist Church, was arrested on six counts of lewd mοlestation. Owasso police said that the victim was a 15 year old who was friends with the pastor’s children. According to investigators, church members are …
24
Jan

WHO WILL RID THE STREETS OF CHILD HAWKERS?

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By Gboyega Adeoye Moji, 15, is the eldest of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Adeyanju who reside in Ipaja, a Lagos suburb. Both parents lost their jobs to the hurried liquidation of Nigeria’s flag carrier, Nigeria Airways, which finally kissed the dust at the twilight of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. It was a fierce battle between …