Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO) – 2015

21

Mar

Elderly woman accused of bashing 10-year-old’s head with hammer

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

FLORIDA — An elderly woman has been arrested for allegedly attacking a 10-year-old with a hammer. Iona Aiken, 79, was taken into custody on Monday following the attack at a Florida home, according to Miami-Dade police and NBC’s 6. NBC’s 6 reported that the girl was listening to headphones and playing on a tablet when Aiken began hitting her …

21

Mar

Daycare worker caught on camera kicking sleeping toddler in head

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

FLORIDA — A daycare worker has been accused of kicking a toddler while the child was sleeping. Linda Klem, 49, is facing child abuse charges after she intentionally kicked a 15-month-old girl on the top of her head, according to WFLA. The whole incident was captured on video. Police reviewed surveillance video showing Klem intentionally …

21

Mar

PARENTS SHOT BY THEIR TODDLER CHARGED WITH CHILD ABUSE

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

The parents of a toddler have been charged with child abuse after their 3-year-old son shot them both, according to a New Mexico criminal complaint. The shooting happened at a motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The couple was shot apparently after the child grabbed a .45-caliber handgun from his mother’s purse and fired one shot, striking both …

21

Mar

TRAFFICKERS CAUGHT SMUGGLING NURSING MOTHER AND CHILDREN INTO NIGERIA

Joe Igbwe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Four notorious suspected human traffickers have been caught by the Immigrations Service, Oyo State Command, while allegedly attempting to smuggle a nursing mother along with her two-year-old son, nine girls, and a boy. The suspects and their victims were apprehended at the Saki border, in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State. The four men were accused of involvement …

21

Mar

HERBALIST PARADED BY POLICE FOR DEFILING 12-YEAR-OLD BOY

Joe Igbwe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

Odinkemere Ogbuehi, a 75- year-old herbalist, from Abia State, has been paraded by the police for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a twelve-year-old boy “through the anus.” Commissioner of Police, JoshakHabila, who paraded the suspect in Umuahia on Friday with other suspected criminals, said that the incident occurred on March 8, 2015 . According …

20

Mar

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

Joe Igbwe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

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

Joe Igbwe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

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 …

16

Mar

Is Female Genital Mutilation Happening In The U.S.?

Joe Igbwe FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) No Comments

Female genital mutilation is a harrowing procedure for girls and women. Parts of the genitalia are removed and the reasons for their extraction are 100 percent non-medical. Feminists and women’s rights activists have fought for decades against the act as it seen as a way of confiscating or deriving women of their human rights and sexual pleasure, …

16

Mar

FEMALE STUDENT GOES BLIND AFTER RECIEVING A SLAP FROM THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S SECRETARY

Joe Igbwe CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

Before January 29, 2015, this girl’s eyes was perfect. But the tide changed against Iyanu and it seems she has lost an eye. The event that led to the change in Iyanu’s life started when she was allegedly slapped by one Mrs Funke Fashina, said to be the secretary to the principal of the school. And what was her offence? The woman reportedly saw her …

16

Mar

“OUR PRINCIPAL FEEDS US WITH ROTTEN MEAT AND VEGETABLES.” FGC OHAFIA STUDENTS LAMENT

Joe Igbwe Education, Right to life No Comments

Students of the Federal Government College, Ohafia, Abia, and their parents, have decried the way the new management of the institution is treating them. Hope Goodness Onyema, a student disclosed: “The Principal [Mr. D.I. Okengwo] feeds us with rotten meat and vegetables which he buys by himself, keep in his house and when it is about to spoil, …

Monthly Archives: March 2015