This story is just so heartbreaking ... Many stigmatized 'Witch Children' have found refuge at Child's Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) center, in Akwa Ibom. The children were branded as "witches" by their families, cast out, and shunned by society.

One of them is six-year-old Israel Effiong, from Ikot Uso Ekong, Eket, who was accused of being responsible for his father's sickness.

Brutally tortured and beaten, driven from his home and made an outcast in his community, he was forced by the so called 'witch killers' to run away and hide in a bush for a year, eating scraps from the market, before he was rescued by Edoho, a volunteer with the organisation.

Read his disturbing story after the cut. Read the rest here: http://www.maestroperostar.com/2016/10/oh-dear-read-heartrending-story-of-6.html