A civil rights lawyer says there is a threat to evict the family from the community for reporting the child case to the police.

By Cletus Ukpong

While the public outcry over the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old boy at Deeper Life High School, Uyo, is yet to fizzle out, another Akwa Ibom school is enmeshed in a child sexual abuse case.

The latest case involves a three-year-old girl whose mum discovered, last week, her underwear was soaked with blood when she returned from school – Awin International Schools – in Ikono, about 32 kilometre from Uyo, the state capital.

The victim is in the nursery section of the school which also has sections for primary and secondary schools.

“My daughter went to school on Wednesday, 13 January, in the morning, nothing happened to her. When my daughter came back from school, I put water (in a bucket) and wanted to bathe her immediately they dropped her at my shop. I removed her knicker, I saw blood. I removed the pant, I saw blood. The pant was torn. I shouted and asked her, ‘mummy, what happened to you?’ She said it was aunty that chucked her,” the victim’s mother, Dorathy Alphonsus, told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday afternoon, at her lawyer’s office in Uyo.

“I checked her private part, a big wound is there,” she said.

Mrs Alphonsus and her husband, Iniobong, were at the lawyer’s office to seek legal aid over their daughter’s case. They looked frightened and helpless, when a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter met with them.

Their daughter appeared restless. She cried intermittently.

A police medical form filled by a doctor at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital confirmed the girl has been sexually abused.

From the doctor’s report, the girl told her mum that a pen was forcefully inserted into her vagina by her class teacher.

The police in Uyo arrested some of the school officials and a man, said to be the landlord to the Alphonsus, who drove the victim from school and handed her over to the mum, before it was discovered that she was sexually abused, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

Some of the arrested persons were, however, said to have been released by the police.

The Alphonsus said they are under pressure to withdraw the case from the police.

Chris Ekpo, a civil rights lawyer Uyo, is offering free legal services to the victim and her parents.

Mr Ekpo said there was a threat to evict the family from the community where they are living in Ikono, for reporting the case to the police.

The principal of Awin International Schools declined to comment on the case when PREMIUM TIMES contacted him on phone.

“Please I am not in the position to speak (on the case), you can get to the police station and find out (what happened),” he said.

The principal later called back our reporter to say, “The head teacher is a better person for you to speak with because it happened in the nursery section, not in the secondary section.”

The police spokesperson in Akwa Ibom, Odiko MacDon, said he was not aware of the case.


532 sexual assault cases treated in one centre in three years

A magistrate’s court on Wednesday commenced trial in the alleged sexual abuse of 11-year-old boy in the Deeper Life High School, Uyo.

The victim was said to have been abused by two senior students of the school when he was switched from his dormitory to another filled with senior students.

The two students, both of them 13 years old, and five officials of the school, including the suspended principal, have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Also, a 23-year-old man, Iniobong Moses, was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a State High Court in Uyo for raping his three-year-old step-daughter.

The judge rejected the claims by the convicted paedophile that he acted under the influence of alcohol.

The judge said Mr Moses did not deserve to walk freely on Nigerian soil and breathe the air of freedom meant for decent members of the society.

Agape Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Akwa Ibom State, told PREMIUM TIMES, early this month, they have treated 532 sexual assault cases in the past three years.

Ten of the victims were boys, the centre said.

The number is sure to be higher than that when cases, both reported and unreported, in other places in the state are taken into consideration.

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From the doctor’s report, the girl told her mum that a pen was forcefully inserted into her vagina by her class teacher.

Brothers and Sisters, as a true born Nigerian; I AM FINALLY SHOCKED..

This is just pure evil.


How a child be sexually attractive to an adult is beyond me.

Killing that class teacher won't be even satisfactory to me if I am the parents of this little girl.

What a F

Damnnn niggarrrr
Too bad

Nawa oo
Sexual abuses everywhere.. where are we heading to in this life sef.. imagine inserting a pencil on a kid's private part, evil things men do this days just weak me

2021 might just be a 2020 pro max...baba God we dey your hand

Too bad

Couldn't read it all..,,who are these animals? Who

Walahi, these people should be sentenced to death by firing squad

Hmm!

Dah to read this news de disgusting.. To what end na? People get mind oo, uwafid.

GodlyHeart:
Ccss

what's ya problem?

Her female class teacher inserted a pen into her Private part?
The future is truly female

And you say make dem no teach Oyedepo a lesson to serve as deterrent to all these one??



Child abuse is still Child abuse no matter who is involved

this is just wickedness, the suspect should be shot dead if found guilty.

ahhh

I cannot able dis one dis one weak me

Haba

Aquatic people ( Akwa Ibom people )


Una too like Fucckk...


The other day Enoh nearly followed me to my house at Rumuola because of the Deeek

Our schools have turned to porn industry.

No wonder Ákwá Ibom has the highest number of HIV cases in Nigeria, forget the media show off of akwa ibom, in reality it is one of the most uncivilised states in Nigeria. Even their married women go out for prostitution and they see nothing wrong with it

Ákwá ibom also label little children as witches
Ákwá ibom is cursed