I’m Bukola Ayinde, Founder of P4:13 Foundation and author of Diary of a Special Needs Mum.

Getting a diagnosis which says your child has Cerebral Palsy is a parent’s worst nightmare. I had my period of living in denial; wishing the problem would go away, like it was all a dream, but the reality stared me in the face.

My husband and I decided to face the challenge before us squarely.

We engaged different specialists; Neurologist, Paediatrician, Physiotherapist, Speech therapist, Occupational therapist, Special Needs Care Givers. At one point we were scouting for a very good physiotherapist.

A parent of a special needs child recommended a young lady to me. I mentioned her name {Bisola Anthonia Abayomi Ojo} to one of my daughter’s therapist who confirmed that the lady was very good at her job. However, she also confirmed that the lady could be arrogant. I spoke with another therapist on the field who also confirmed that the recommended Physiotherapist was good at what she does but she could be rude.

Well, at that point of my life, I didn’t mind if she was going to be rude to me or arrogant as far as she was as good as everyone had said, I was fine with that. All I wanted was to see was my child’s improvement, I could take any sh*t in between.

She came on board as my daughter’s physiotherapist. She was very professional and dedicated, but she didn’t come cheap. She didn’t come cheap at all.
My daughter attended a mainstream school that allowed her to use the sickbay as her pullout room for her physiotherapy session.

In June 2016, my daughter’s school proprietress requested that my husband and I should make out time to see her. When we eventually did a week later, she told us that the physiotherapist had manhandled our daughter and she was going to show us a CCTV recording to prove it.

At the back of my mind I felt the woman was exaggerating because therapy could be demanding at times. My child may cry, if she didn’t like the exercise or if the exercise was tasking.
However, when I watched the video, I was shocked beyond words that someone I trusted with my daughter could treat her worse than an animal. I believe that even an animal shouldn’t be treated that way.

I mean, she came highly recommended; she is a Masters degree holder. She is not an illiterate.
Apparently she didn’t remember that there was a CCTV in the room or she felt nobody would be checking the TV at that particular time.

It was heartbreaking to see my daughter treated by a health worker in such a barbaric act.
I watched my daughter as she fell down several times hitting her head on the tiles. There were times she hit her head on the edge of the wooden bed before falling to the ground.

Her Physiotherapist slapped her three times; the third time with her cell phone. She left her head hanging upside for 5 minutes. She twisted my daughter’s hands several times; at a point she sat on her hands, at another point she tied her hands behind her head. I watched as my daughter fell from her chair while her neck was stuck in between the space at the vertical back rest and the flat wood used for sitting down. I watched on as this lady typed on her phone 90% of the time only taking some time off to torture my daughter. Did I mention that she took out time to take her selfie? Up to five times.

After we watched the recording, my husband could not control his tears. My heart bled.
My daughter’s Neurologist said we cannot ascertain the level of damage to her brain because we did not bring her immediately it happened. He said an MRI would have been done to ascertain any damage.
I got her arrested.
She said she was sorry
She claimed depression and ill health
I didn’t believe her then, I don’t believe her now.

I had to make a decision, to leave my daughter in the hands of her nannies at home (which may be another source of abuse) and follow through to ensure the physiotherapist was duly punished. (Bearing in mind the justice system in Nigeria) or drop the charges lodged at the police station and allow Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board at Yaba to handle the matter.

I dropped the police charges. I decided to stay with my traumatized daughter.
I handed the Physiotherapist over to the Registrar at Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board at Yaba.

Her punishment:
• Three months withdrawal of her practicing license.
• Three months work in a general hospital under supervision without pay
• She was to undergo a psychiatric test
Like seriously? Are you kidding me?
She had been practicing for a year without renewing her license and all you could do was to withdraw her license officially for a mere three months?

She went back to the Registrar at Medical Rehabilitation Therapists to ask for permission to travel to USA to get treatment.

I called to check on the case, and I was told she had travelled for treatment
I was told not to worry as she cannot practice anywhere else in the world without a letter from the board.
Some months later, I was told by a reliable source that she was not taking any major treatments but attending a Masters programme in US.

So she got away with child abuse, assault, battery, in fact attempted murder.
This is only possible in Nigeria right?

I went back to Medical Rehabilitation Center, I was shocked to find out that the case had gone cold.
What stops her from coming back into the country and working with other children?
How many Nigerians ask for practicing license before employing a professional?

I strongly believe that the least the board should have done was to declare her unfit to work with children.
In respect to my daughter, the signs were there: She had been withdrawn for a while in fact she had stop smiling, interacting with anybody in the house or attempting to answer questions in school. I kept asking the care giver that followed her to school about the sudden change. The caregiver said she had no idea. I came up with my own theory and I brushed it aside.

How would I have known that a health worker, someone I trusted with my child could be so cruel? The Physiotherapist had been with us for over two years. I can only imagine….

Well, I pulled my daughter out of school and started her own mini school at home. I let go of my current caregivers for good reasons and got new ones. With care and love, she added weight, came out of her shell and got better. Right now she attends a school three times a week and we are making progress.

Child abuse is real…from the people you least expect. Protect your children.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e9Bj4unhEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e9Bj4unhEU

https://www.bellanaija.com/2017/05/my-daughter-with-cerebral-palsy-was-battered-by-the-therapist-i-trusted/

You are wicked and cowardly mom..

You for bite the therapist nipplé commot

Some humans are simply heartless. Please this should go on front page to save those who might come in contact with her. This one can even beat her own child to death, any guy that marries this one na one chance. Tufiakwa

Lalasticlala

I cried o. I will not lie. I cried. I dont understand this life sef. I wish I had tge power to make every sick, disabled and fragile person strong and healthy. I am trully sorry for what that child and every child in the world undergoing abuse. Wish her well.

Wish my mom happy birthday. She means alot. I mean that when i say it. My little way of celebrating her today.

She noticed she was rude to her, yet still felt she could work with her child? Wasn't that a red flag? How can she do her job working with a special needs child when she's already rude to regular people? Was her pay going to change that? Why do some people think money will make people love them?

This is why some people die mysteriously, imagine such a wicked treatment. Some people are purely animal in human flesh
Pls protect your children from people like this, don't trust anyone.

I couldn't watch the video to the end. It was heartbreaking. How can someone treat a child that bad especially a special needs child. It is already hard enough without adding torture to it. 2 years of such abuse? That's cold.

How can we let her go with just a slap on her wrist? Nigeria still has a long way to go.

Pathetic
Just sue her rude ass

sue the beetch

Wicked... wicked souls everywhere !

This was on bellanaija yesterday with 200+ comments already.

The lady is finished. People have contacted the uni where she is doing her second Masters in the UK, tweeted the Metropolitan police, and also the Medical board. Although she's deleted her linkedin and facebook account, it is too late for her.

This country is so useless that the Nigerian medical board and the police did not take the right actions despite the evidence of her crime.

That video was heartbreaking. Never seen a human being sooooo wicked. I watched the vid full length and it was unbelievable.

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So sad

She ought to be barred from practicing.

people are wicked sha..


omg, just watched it i couldnt finish it. why is that damn still alive

I could not watch the whole clip I felt SICK half way . That woman needs to be castrated and banned from getting close to kids and vonorable people .

Very touching, what a wicked world.

Tellemall:


She noticed she was rude to her, yet still felt she could work with her child? Wasn't that a red flag? How can she do her job working with a special needs child when she's already rude to regular people? Was her pay going to change that? Why do some people think money will make people love them?

You said it all pal....A damn red flag at that. God save us.

Oh my God. This story just spoilt my day. But mma you were told that she is rude. Why didn't you keep an eye on her knowing that she will never be rude to you cos you are paying her heavily and she will try to present her self as an expert to you.

Thank God your girl have gotten over it and she is doing well now.
As for Nigeria and the way the take things, I don't have anything to say only to pray that God will never allow me to cross her path.

ayemanika

I feel like searching for her to break her neck myself

Shut up. Go open a new thread to celebrate your mother. We're talking about an abused, helpless child here.


This thing should be rearrested and beaten up. I want to beat her! Btw, what kind of mother allows her daughter's abuser to walk freely?

This witch should not live.

iamfroshsylver:
Wish my mom happy birthday. She means alot. I mean that when i say it. My little way of celebrating her today.

Ohhhhh!!! God!!!!!! She should av deleted the therapist from the world

delishpot:
I cried o. I will not lie. I cried. I dont understand this life sef. I wish I had tge power to make every sick, disabled and fragile person strong and healthy. I am trully sorry for what that child and every child in the world undergoing abuse. Wish her well.

Its so saddening. I really can't wait to be rich and help people with​mental health issues and Sickle cell patients. God help them.

let me just pretend that i.understand dat story above

PLS SHARE THE VIDEO FOR OTHER PARENT TO BE AWARE ,EVEN TRUST DOCTORS TEACHER CAN ABUSE A CHILD , MY HEARTH IS BITTER ,MY PRAYER FOR LADY , IS THAT SHE WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER HEAR OR SEE THE CRY OF HER OWN BABY

See what a fully blown adult carefully created by God is doing to a hapless little child.

The rate of wickedness in our world especially Africa is so much you tend to imagine whether we have a separate gene conditioned for cruelty.

This is about the most hideous footage i have seen in recent time.