Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO) – VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

15

Jul

‘How my father beat me with barbed wire because of mum’

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LAGOS—Operatives of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, Ebutte Metta chapter, have rescued a 12-year-old girl (names withheld), who was battered by her father in Lagos. It was gathered that the victim was found in critical condition at Oyingbo market, Ebute- Metta, following beatings she allegedly received from her father. A close family source said: …

08

Jul

Child rapists on the loose: How Nigerian policemen aid paedophiles to escape justice

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One cold afternoon, 11-year-old Bisi Adebola (not real name) was running errands for her mother in Ipaja area of Lagos, when a paedophile living just few metres away from their house, called the girl into his house and raped her. Shy and afraid, Bisi told her story, on the prompting of her mother, how the man, whom she referred to as ‘Alfa’, …

08

Jul

HOW A 13-YEAR OLD GIRLWAS DEFILED AND BATTERED BY A COUPLE

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A couple, Mr Francis Onyeji and his wife, Chibuzor, are presently battling with the law over the assault and severe injuries inflicted on a 13-year old girl (names withheld) living with them as a ward in Ekpan, near Warri in Delta State. It was learnt that the woman, Mrs Chibuzor Onyeji, was arrested by the police at Ekpan over the weekend for allegedly …

05

Jul

Man to die by hanging for killing 6-year-old girl

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Bauchi—Bauchi State High Court had sentenced to death by hanging Ibrahim Idris, 40, for killing a six-year-old girl after failing in his attempt to rape her. Idris was dragged to the court, presided over by Justice Yelim Bogoro, by the state Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Dawud Yakubu, who charged him with culpable homicide, an offence contrary …

30

May

Millionaire who killed her autistic son with pill overdose at Fifth Avenue hotel jailed for 18 years

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Killer: Gigi Jordan has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in New York A ‘remorseless’ millionaire who killed her autistic 8-year-old son at a luxury hotel has been jailed for 18 years. New York socialite Gigi Jordan, 54, was sentenced for first-degree manslaughter after using a crusher and syringe to administer an overdose of prescription …

30

May

Aregbesola laments increasing rate of children abduction

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The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has lamented the increasing cases of kidnapping among the children. The governor said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, spoke at this year’s Children’s …

11

May

Many rape cases, so little punishment

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The Lagos State Government startled Nigerians last week when it announced that there were no fewer than 12,200 rape cases in the state in the last four years. The Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, who gave this figure, added that 140 sex offenders have been recorded in the state’s Sex Offenders Register. A total of 3,083 …

11

Apr

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

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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, …

20

Mar

Police arrest Abia director for death of 10-year-old maid

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The Director of Administration representing the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the Board of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, Mr. Christian Onuoha, has been arrested by the police for the mysterious death of his 10-year-old housemaid. The victim, Anurika Ngwakwe, was allegedly found unconscious in Onuoha’s …

20

Mar

Husband colludes with wife, sells only child for N500,000

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The Nigerian Child Rights Law 2003 specifically prohibits the sale or procurement of a child but in the world 31-year-old Gideon Ani lives in, no such law exists. Ani, an unemployed indigene of Abia State, who is currently being quizzed by investigators at the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos had just had his first child, a boy, from …

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