Man, 40, rapes 4-yr-old girl to death

The Bayelsa State Coordinator of Child Protection Network (CPN) Mrs. Mariam Kombo-Ezeh, yesterday told of how a 4-year-old girl was raped to death by a 40-year-old man in the state.
She spoke at a stakeholders meeting organized by the state government in collaboration with CPN, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
She also revealed that a seven-year-old girl died 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.”

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Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development in the state, Ms. Nengi Rufus-Spiff, said the present administration was shocked by the revelations and would never support child abuse under any guise.
She added that “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 RigRipplesNigeria …without borders, without fearsht Bill would soon be passed into law in Bayelsa.

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