Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

19

Oct

Four Men Arrested For defiling 16 Year Old Boy

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

The Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Thursday, arrested four persons, Abdullahi Rabiu, 28, Auwalu Idris, 41, Nazifi Abba, 25 and 18-year-old Abu Zaid Yusu, in Taura Local Government Area of the state, for committing sodomy with a 16-year-old boy identified as Umar Sani. According to Sani, the suspects who …

10

Oct

Pastor, wife arrested for selling baby for 300k in Akwa Ibom

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A man who claims to be a Pastor and the General Overseer of a Pentecostal Church in Nnung Ukot Itam, Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State, identified simply as Pastor John and his wife, Deborah, is telling the police all he knows about the sale of his child to a child trafficking syndicate operating in the state foe N300,000. The couple who …

10

Oct

Prostitute sells her newborn child for N20,000 in Bayelsa

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

The police in Bayelsa have been called in to investigate after a woman allegedly sold her day-old child for the sum of N20,000. The mother, said to be a commercial sex worker who operates within Yenagoa, the state capital, is said to have made the trade with a family resident in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. News of the incident was confirmed by the …

01

Oct

The toddler with the 23-inch head: girl whose skull has filled with fluid – yet her parents can’t afford to get her treated

Joe Igbwe Right to life No Comments

These heartbreaking pictures from rural India show the tragic suffering of a 14-month-old toddler. Dhabuhi Parmar suffers from an extreme form of hydrocephalus, a rare condition where fluid accumulates inside the skull. Her head has swollen to 23 inches – almost three times its normal size – and she is now bedridden and in danger of losing …

01

Oct

Pastor impregnates house help, aborts it

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

Members of ‘United Methodist Church, Oshodi‘ chased their pastor away from the church premises for allegedly impregnating his housemaid and aborting it. The clergyman, Barkuma Andrew is said to be residing with his wife, children, relatives and a housemaid in a 3 bedroom apartment in the church premises. According to The punch, members …

26

Sep

POLICE MAN KILL A MOTHER OF FOUR CHILDREN BECAUSE OF N50 BRIBE

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12-year-old Elizabeth narrated how a trigger-happy police corporal shot her parents — Mr and Mrs Godwin Ekpo — in the head. According to the girl, they were returning from church in her father’s “keke marwa” (tricycle) when they were stopped by a group of policemen who were carrying out a “stop-and-search” operation. While the father was …

26

Sep

Boy, 6, seeks N3.5m to save his eyesight

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SIX-YEAR-OLD Joshua Takon is partially blind. His right eye has lost total function, while the left eye is severely threatened. His parents are desperately seeking help to raise money for a crucial surgery that would save him from going completely blind. Joshua who was diagnosed with cleft palate at childbirth, requires N3.5 million to undertake …

26

Sep

Woman Pours Hot Water On 12-Year-Old House maid

Joe Igbwe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

How wicked can a woman be! That was the lips of eye witnesses who gathered to behold the inhuman act of infamy as one Mrs. Bethelyn Falade was dragged to the police for pouring steaming hot water on her hapless house maid, a 12-year-old girl whose name was given as Chinemerem Sunday for the offence of being stubborn. According to the Punch Newspaper report, …

26

Sep

Couple Arrested For Stealing 10 Babies In Anambra State

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A young couple who specializes in stealing babies in Anambra State has been arrested by men of the Nigerian Police. The couple Friday Chibueze and Amauche Chibueze, were paraded before newsmen on Friday, October 31 where the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hassan Karma revealed the modus operandi of the evil couple. Disclosing the breakthrough of …

24

Sep

Doctor, two others arrested for selling baby 1

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

THE Lagos State Police Command, yesterday arrested three persons, among them, a trado-medical doctor, over alleged theft and sale of a two-week old baby. The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters, Ikeja, identified the trado-medical doctor as Onolaja Olawale and the two …

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