9 year-old Onyiyechi Nkerem was yesterday
rescued from the hands of her Aunt, Chioma Okereke with whom she lived
for four months. A Lagos Based NGO, Project Alert stormed the resident
of her
Aunt where Onyiyechi was rescued after a good Samaritan alerted them
about how she has been severally battered.
According to the founder of the
NGO, Mrs Josephine Effah-Chukwuma, the little girl was tortured and brutalized
severally by her aunt on several occasions. Chioma inflicted wounds on the
little girl's head, back, eyes and legs. The case was brought to her attention
by one Annie Chioma Chukwu on Sunday evening and by Tuesday, we were able to
reunite Oyinyechi with her parents in Umunoha village in Mbaitoli Ikeduru LGA, Imo
State.
But for the intervention of
Project Alert representatives in Owerri, the youths in the village would have
mobbed Chioma, her husband and her mother in-law for maltreating the little
girl.
Pictures show little Onyiyechi;
her head with wound scars; her back; her grandmother and father Bernard
standing; and angry youths outside their home in Imo.
NO CHILD SHOULD BE A MAID TO
ANYONE Mrs Josephine concluded.
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