David Emmanuel Umem, founder and Executive Director of African Children's Aid and Development Foundation and husband of Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven, last Saturday rushed to the rescue of a child who was severely tortured and left on the streets of Eket in Akwa Ibom State.

The girl, who looked malnourished is in critical condition and fighting for her life in a hospital. Meanwhile, investigation is ongoing to find the people behind the attack. Below is the post published by Ms Loven

"As I told you, on Saturday morning David Emmanuel Umem rushed out from our center because he got a phone call about a girl who was seen lying on the street in a very critical state. David rushed her to the hospital and reported the case to the police.
Our own nurse Rose Efiok came to the hospital very short after and has been with the girl ever since. The police are involved helping us to solve the case so I cannot go into a lot of details. This is also why I have marked her face.
All I can say now is that the girl has been abused and is suffering from tremendous pains. The girl has parents so we are likely not going to take her to our center but at this moment we are paying for all her treatments.
We are working hard with the police to find the people or person who did this so we can make sure they being held responsible for their cruel actions. We are fighting for justice"

http://trendshood.com/2017/04/photos-malnourished-child-brutally-tortured-abused-left-lying-street-akwa-ibom/

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what a pity, probably accused of being a witch... great job from you, more Grace.

She must have been locked up for months for the cure of witchcraft

God bless you!

They must have accused her of being a witch and then her parents just lose all natural love for her and start a barbaric and brutal torture regime to exorcise her. Africa!!!!! Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery be it by traditional priests or Some so called religious leaders and end the stupidity

Bad

What the Bleep is going on in Akwa Ibom State? Do they need another Mary Slessor?

i tot Mary Slessor enlightened these people

Some Akwa Ibom people with their dark brain and stupidity of the highest order go say na winch she be nait make her parents reject her.

Behaving like animals and them get the highest number of mad people for their community because of rejections from uncles, parents, community all in the name of witchcraftcy. Barbaric sets of tribe. Thank God for the Samaritan.

I dey vex abeg make no body hold me o

This is very bad

I wont be surprised if she was accused of been possessed with witchcraft, thats what Akwa ibom people are known for and sex machineries. I served there so dont ask why !!! Poor girl, I hope they'll find out how she ended up on the street.

The problem of child-witch has lingered for more than necessary, I wonder why children would be subjected to dehumanising treatments because they have lazy adults who wasted their youthful years. What bothers me more is the silence of child rights groups,vocal human rights fighters such as Stella Damascus, Ben Murray Bruce et al. neither have I seen any expository movie done by nollywood to bring this issue to the front burner like they have done in the past. Also, religious preachers must stop accusing children falsely (yes falsely because most of these pastors don't see any of those things they claim to see spiritually) in order to prove the efficacy of their powers, they have caused more divisions in families than uniting them. Lastly, the law must bear its full weight on anyone found guilty of killing or maltreating any child they suspect of witchcraft.

Terrible..... Some people have lost touch with humanity.
Can you do this to your child..can you allow your child to be treated this way.. .. If you can't then why do it to another persons child

Thank You. You're now noticed.

This is some f**ked up sh!t

She left the coven meeting late and crash landed, a bat that turned to human.

Oh Africa
.... This girl will cursed the day she was brought into this planet


Poor little child. I'm sure they accused her of witchcraft, Her parent must be mentally deranged.


Pray she survive the Tortures melted on her by some delusional beings

Nigeria will know peace when her citizens ditches religious doctrines for compassion and right doing.

Some people need to be sterilised/chemically castrated because they are unfit to bring children into the world. Animals

What is with Akwa Ibom and their backward thinking?
Always in the news for the wrong reason.

Where isdia world heading

Akwa ibom always hitting FP for wrong reason.. ... And some people are making money from witchcraft

This is the worst post of the week

So pathetic!!
The poor girl

Gone are those days when human were humane

Now it's all inhumane human

Anja and her husband are really doing a great job that deserves our collective support. May God bless them all and may God spare the life of this poor little girl. Where the govt has failed we need to come together to help and support one another. As a parent I feel really hurt. The govt doesnt value our lives and the lives of its kids. This state obviously has a ministry of Women Affairs and also Child welfare at LGAs.

This cannot be. I thought the south are saint. Malnourished? In Paradise of the world (South). North is backward we need to drag them into 2017.

wicked world