Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

21

Nov

Refusal to educate your child in Sokoto, now criminal offence –Tambuwal

Joe Education No Comments

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has said any parent in the state, who refuses to educate his children, will be liable to criminal offence, if a bill before the state House of Assembly is passed into law. The move, which is considered radical and revolutionary, is aimed at boosting school enrolment, and providing quality education to every child …

21

Nov

China ends one-child policy

Joe Right to life No Comments

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of slowing economic growth. All couples will be allowed two children, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a communique …

14

Nov

Australia convicts two Women over female genital mutilation

Joe FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) No Comments

An Australian court has found two women guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on two young girls, in the country’s first such conviction. The incidents took place in separate incidents in 2009 and 2012 in Wollongong, New South Wales when the girls were each about seven years old. A man, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, was found guilty …

14

Nov

Church pastor suspected of aggravated child rape, sexual battery

Joe CHILD ABUSE, FOREIGN NEWS No Comments

New Orleans police arrested an Algiers man, who is also a pastor at Second Highway Baptist Church in Marrero, for aggravated rape of a child under 13. Reverend Dr. Sherman Smith, 56, was booked into Orleans Parish Prison on Wednesday at 11:09 a.m. He faces charges of aggravated rape, sexual battery, molestation of a juvenile or person with a mental …

14

Nov

Pastor Caught For Raping A Teenage Girl In His Church

Joe VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY No Comments

The Police in Imo State have arrested the General Overseer of a popular Spiritual Church in Ikeduru council area of the state, for allegedly having constant illicit affair with a 13-year-old girl. The girl’s father, a widower, said the pastor severally raped his daughter between 2010 and 2013. According to him: “Between 2010 and 2013, I was sick …

14

Nov

24-yr-old woman arraigned in court for child trafficking

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A 24-year-old woman, Ife Yusuf has been arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly luring three girls into prostitution. Ife Yusuf was arrested and taken to court by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters after she arrested on December 20, 2012 in the Ketu area of Lagos “after …

10

Nov

Baby stolen by doctor in Akwa Ibom recovered in Abuja by police

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A baby boy who was stolen at just three-days-old, by a medical doctor with the connivance of his mother and later sold to a childless woman in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has been recovered by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command after intensive investigations conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department of the command. According to a …

07

Nov

4 women arrested for selling 2-month-old baby for N625k

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

Four suspected female child traffickers have been nabbed at Ogidi, Idemili North local government area of Anambra State, for their alleged involvement in the stealing, selling and buying of a two-month old baby girl for N625,000. The baby was reportedly stolen from her mother at Nnewi area of the state by three of the suspects, who sold her to one of …

07

Nov

Nigerian woman extradited to the UK for child sex trafficking

Joe CHILD TRAFFICKING No Comments

A notorious Nigerian female child sex trafficker, Franka Asemota who has been on the run from the law has finally been arrested by the Interpol and has been extradited to the United Kindom. The 36-year-old Asemota had been declared wanted by the international police over her roles in international child sex trafficking and smuggling business, questioning …

02

Nov

Woman slits wrist of her 13 – year old housemaid in 3 places

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

Officers of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested Esther Bello, a trader, for allegedly abusing her 13-year-old housemaid, Titi, in Obanikoro, Lagos. Policemen from the Pedro station were called by neighbours after Titi ran out of her madam’s house with a bleeding hand that had been cut deep in 3 places, Punch reports. According to Titi, …

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