OFFICIALS of United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and other stakeholders in the protection of the rights of the child were shocked, yesterday, to hear of the case of a 40-year-old man that raped a four-year-old girl to death in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The revelation was made by the State Coordinator of Child Protection Network, CPN, Mrs. Mariam Kombo-Ezeh.

She also revealed two other cases of child abuse, which occurred in the state, including the death of a seven-year-old girl of complications from HIV/AIDS after being raped and infected by a man, and another 13-year-old girl gang-raped in Yenagoa, the state capital.

Speaking on Advocacy Engagement with Policy Makers on Domestication of Child Right Act in Bayelsa, Mrs. Kombo-Eze said cases of child abuse and inhuman treatments were on the rise in the state.

She said: “It is pathetic and the cases are on the high side. There is the need for speedy passage of the bill on Child Rights into Law.”

In her speech at the stakeholders meeting organized by the state government in collaboration with CPN, with the support of UNICEF, Enugu Field Office, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Ms. Nengi Rufus-Spiff, said the present administration was shocked by the revelations and would never support child abuse under any guise.

According to her, children in Bayelsa State will be properly protected under the proposed Bill, adding “the parents too should rise to the realities of training the boy-child to respect the girl-child. It is a thing of regret to know that the rate of such abuses is high.”

In her message at the event, Chief Field Officer of UNICEF, Enugu office, Mr. Nwanaka Chude Onwurah, commended the state government on the existing policies on the protection and welfare of Bayelsa children.

Onwurah, who was represented by Charles Nzuki, expressed optimism that the Child Right Bill would soon be passed into law in Bayelsa.





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Raped a 4 Year old to death?

The wickedness in people, leaves you speechless most times. The other day, was it in Calabar?a guy was butchered and his pieces kept in a bag, by his girlfriend brother because he owes him money.

Too much wickedness in the heart of men.

Jmb

Hagnxhshkdkeund

^^ I'll comment something better when rape/rapist are annihilated or reduced to the lowest occurences in Nigeria

Nawa o

Devil sometimes will be amazed on the wickedness of some mankinds..

When rape happens men blamed women for the crimes commited against them, They say a man cant control himself, he is moved by what he sees, he cant control his se xual life; konji is to blane , why did she not shout? She must have tempted him, she must be framing him up, she must have enjoyed it but he did not pay her well etc etc. The men were pittied and even the case was allowed to be settle out of court.
In the end, Our boys did not learn how to control themselves; that cross was left for women to bear.
Now a scratch that could have been treated easily was allowed to fester and rot causing an even bigger problem. Its not too late to treat rape as a serious crime. If found guilty beyound doubt rapist should be given the death sentence.
Men thought they were safe and rape was a womans problem. News flash, men now rape men! Lets see what fellow men will give as reasons why they were rapped just as they did when a woman gets raped.
Men blame rape on nature and hormones yet when a barren woman steals a child due to the female nature to birth and nurture a child, she is harshly judged, condemned and punished, her nature and hormones are over looked, no one blanes the fact that seeing other women with kids may trigger her desire to have a child to call hers. she is not spared the wrath of the law. But a man will rape a woman and the society will say its hormone, lets blane the women that walk semi nude cos men see them and then rape, why did she follow him? Etc etc
Naija will soon become like india if care is not taken
Poor childs life ended in such horror and tragedy. God forbid. Kill her rapist already.