June 1st, 2016 – High Rate Of Child Abuse In Nigeria Caused By Religion & Culture – Kaduna NGO Raises Alarm
All Children Charity International Foundation, a Kano based Non Governmental Organization has raised alarm on the high rate of child abuse cases in Nigeria.
The director of the NGO, Ranti Daudu said today that the issue or religion and strict cultural practices should be addressed to reduce the trend.
According to her, people capitalise on cultural and religious beliefs and practices to perpetually keep the children silent when they are being violated.
Daudu said;
“Violence against the child is somehow related to cultural practices.“Children are being violated by elders, but they cannot say anything out of fear and because they are expected to respect their elders.
“It is a good thing to respect elders, but it is becoming part of the extension of violence against children, as elders are taking advantage of that to abuse children.
“Even religion has also been used to keep the child quite.
“A three-year-old girl was raped to death in Kawo, Kaduna, but the parent said no, we won’t prosecute the offender, we leave everything to God. This is a serious cause for concern.”
She urged parents, teachers, community leaders and religious leaders to rise up and challenge this ugly trend.
It is highly regrettable that a couple would do nothing for the unjust rape to death of their own 3-year old daughter. In the name of which religion? Or did the poor child have physical defects that had made her parents wish that she was never born in the first place?
I can well vouch that God would not have wanted that case transfered to Him just like that. This passiveness only encourages more villains to perpetrate an evil that should be faced head-on and punished. It looks to me that northern Nigeria is the home town of incubus.
@Metu your knowledge willnt run dry. You said it all.
And to think that about 95% of the victims are Christian kids makes it a sad reality.
I take a stroll…
why leave it for God and y not sue d bastard that reap your 3yrs old daughter.
People need to be enlighten instead of hiding under the canopy of religion
That man that raped a 3 year old to death has signed his hell warrant. God has already punished him. I pity his generation. Government should do something fast because this is getting out of hand