Tag: Child Abuse
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65-year-old Ogun landlord arrested for alleged child abuse of his tenant’s 11-year-old twin brothers
The suspect explained to the police that he was informed that one of the twins excreted within the compound
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Children must be taught balance view of obedience to checkmate child sexual abuse – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku Today, I have decided to write about obedience as it affects child sexual abuse. Why do some fathers, uncles and close relations succeed in sexually abusing their minors? They dangle ‘Obedience’ as a strategy, and the overly obedient child succumbs to the abuse. They are told to keep the abuse a secret, and…
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Child abuse: When the government is the abuser – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku It is no longer news that child abuse in Nigeria is on an alarming increase. Child abuse, in its different forms, is a daily reality. Let me again reiterate the different forms of child abuse: Physical abuse: this covers all forms of physical violence on the child. Emotional or psychological abuse: this is…
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How to equip children to protect themselves from sexual abuse – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku One way we can succeed in ending sexual abuse of children is by involving the children themselves; by helping them to protect themselves. This we can do by letting them know what is on the ground. We have to bring them on board. Even the very young ones. Do you know that…
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Starving Nigerian boy scarred with hot iron by aunt over N50 groundnuts
A starving eight-year-old Nigerian boy has been rescued from his aunt following serial torture, after he ate groundnuts worth N50, about $0.10 cent, without authorisation. The unidentified lady got so annoyed that she decided to scar the child’s body with a hot iron, leaving life-long scars. The incident happened at Anantigha, Calabar South, on Sunday…
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Minor Attracted Persons (MAPs): Have we lost it? – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku When we thought we have heard it all! There springs a movement that seeks recognition as specializing in defiling minors. They want to be recognized as having the right to defile minors rather than being recognized for who they are: sick paedophiles. It is not a surprise that Thomas Victor O’Carroll, is…
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[Trending video] Man brutally punish children over mother’s sins
A man at Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State has been arrested after torturing his two children for their ‘mother’s sins.’ The unidentified father kept his children in chains, broke one of the children’s fingers with a hammer, and poured salt in their bleeding wounds. According to a video that surfaced online the man…
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R. Kelly pleads not guilty to fresh charges
Shamed American songwriter, Robert Sylvester Kelly known by his stage name ‘R. Kelly’ has pleaded not guilty to new charges of child pornography and sexually abusing a teenage girl. The new alleged victim, referred to as Minor Six, was included as part of an updated federal indictment during an arraignment at a hearing in Chicago…
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Lagos records 2,506 cases of child abuse in 11 months
Between January and last month, the government of Lagos State recorded 2,506 cases of child abuse. The Commissioner of Youths and Social Development, Olusegun Dawodu, stated this in Alausa, Ikeja, during a sensitisation campaign to end violence against children. He warned those using children for alms-begging to desist from the act as government was ready…
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UK foreign minister attacks Google over child abuse content
British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, accused Google on Thursday of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites. The government has repeatedly criticised online platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove abusive material…