Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

10

Jun

5-Year old girl raped in a kindergaton in Anambra state, school gives father N100,000 to keep quiet

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A 5-year old girl whose father is a Carpenter and mother an akara seller was raped in a school in Anambra state by the son of the head mistress of the school. The father was offered N100,000 to bury the case, and unfortunately he accepted. Barrister at law – Emeka Ugwuonye gives the detail report as follows: DPA has just stopped an attempt to …

26

Jan

Step mother brutalised her step children

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A 2-year-old boy and four year-old girl were allegedly brutalized by their stepmother in NDC, Igabi local government area of Kaduna State. The children, Abdulrahman Abubakar and Maryam Abubakar are currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in Kaduna. According to Daily Trust, the stepmother identified as Hasiya broke Abdulrahman’s left hand, …

21

Jan

Child accused of witchcraft, chained, caged and left to die

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This little child was accused of witchcraft in Akure, she was severely tortured, and attempts were made to kill her, but she survived. she was then chained in a dog cage without food for months before she was found and brought out by someone. Dr. Joe Odumakin who posted this story said she stumbled on the good people who found the little girl and started …

18

Jan

Abandoned children found living in cage, eating and drinking with dogs

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CHINA: Two young children have been discovered apparently living with dogs in cages after their parents divorced and both remarried in other cities. The unnamed brother and sister, aged six and four, went to live with their grandfather, who breeds dogs for a living. They have since been spotted in cages eating and drinking with dogs. Neighbours reportedly …

16

Jan

Step Mother tortured step son to death

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GRAPHIC CONTENT: Our attention was drawn to this extreme case of child torture. This is another case of a step mother torturing her step child to death. This reportedly happened in Bayelsa state. The child gave up the ghost as he was being rushed to Federal Medical Centre,Yenagoa. The rate of child abuse in South-South part of Nigeria is rising every …

14

Jan

12-year-old girl commits suicide while streaming live on facebook

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12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis of Cedartown in northern Georgia, USA broadcasted live her suicide on social media. The video showed the teenager hanging herself on a tree in front of their house after saying goodbye to her loved ones, and expressed how sorry she felt for taking such decision. The young girl said that she had been physically and sexually …

04

Jan

The Pope laments the rising cases of child abuse among catholic priests and other clergy and calls on bishops to maintain “zero tolerance” for child abuse

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Pope Francis has exhorted catholic bishops worldwide to do what’s needed to ensure children are protected from sexual abuse by clergy. In a letter released on Monday to the bishops, the Pope decries “the suffering, the experiences and pain of minors who were abused sexually by priests”. “It is a sin that shames us” the …

29

Dec

PASTOR REMANDED IN PRISON FOR DEFILING 5-YEAR OLD GIRL

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A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti has remanded an Anglican church pastor, Gabriel Asateru, in prison over alleged defilement of a 5-year old girl. The said pastor committed the offence on the 23rd day of December, 2016 at Ekiti state. On the said day, the 53 years old pastor unlawfully had canal knowledge of the little girl (names withheld) by petting …

21

Dec

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: A CRACK IN THE FOUNDATION OF A BETTER FUTURE

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All children deserve childhoods free from all manner of sexual abuse and exploitation. Without this safety, we put our future as a society at risk. As a part of the Old Nursery Rhyme states “……listen to your children, we are the leaders of tomorrow”, the rise and fall of every nation deepends solely on her future leaders, which should be psychologically …

18

Dec

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR TORTURING HER 4-YEAR STEPSON

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One Amina Yakubu has been arrested by the police in Kaduna for allegedly torturing her 4-year old stepson. She was accused of frequently beating the little boy, pouring cold water on him and torturing him with hot pressing iron. The boy, Al-amin Yakubu, lives with her after his father divorced his mother ten months ago. A Kaduna based civil society …

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