Yesterday, there was a trending report about the Police liberating a 3-year-old girl, Sarah, being tortured by her parents in Nnewi, Anambra state. According to a Sam Itauma of the Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network, he spoke to the Anambra State Police Commissioner, Mr. Sam Okaula, who supposedly said the girl, who is malnourished and skinny from starvation, has been rescued and her parents arrested. Itauma claimed that the girl was said to have mental challenges but is undergoing intense medical treatment.
Reports however have it that this is false and an attempt to help the parents cover up their crime. LIB’s source revealed that the parents of the abused girl were never arrested. Although they have since stopped beating the child, the only result of any medical care she received was a tiny bandage on her head. The source who has come in contact with the child believes that she is quite a sound child and does not have any mental issue as claimed. She is just traumatized from living in so much fear.
How did the cover up begin? The source revealed that AN anonymous man came to the house and was overhead alerting the child’s parents that corpers have put his daughter’s pictures on the Internet. The man left with Sarah and her mum and when they returned, she had just a bandage on her head.
Thereafter the parents went berserk. Sarah’s father came to the corper’s part of the lodge to warn and threaten them to keep off from his affairs, saying that the welfare of his child was none of their business.
Any NGO or appropriate government agency that wants to intervene in this case of abuse can investigate further at NYSC NCCF family house at Obiagu, Amichi, Nnewi, Anambra state, LIB says.
That goes to show you, “Never believe anything you hear from the so-called authorities from Nigeria; whether it’s related to Biko Haram (Boko Haram) or any other issue or sect.” Do not believe them!
Cash Ezimako