RAPED TO DIE.............

an abused girl

 Child abuse began in Nigeria many years ago through slavery and has since then, become a big monster gradually crawling into families and eating up its victims. Today, it’s regarded as the third most corrupt practices carried out by Nigerians.

Every day, stories are being told by its survivals, some are heard while others are never told at all. Most of those more vulnerable are women and children, no one seem to listen when they speak up while others who hear of it think it’s a mere story.

 This is a sad story told by a girl who lived on the same street as another until her death. “Shola was subjected into slavery. She started hawking sachet water to support the family. Shola must execute her chores which included washing of the clothes and dishes, cleaning the home and cooking at the end of her day’s sales.  Life was miserable as the Ajobi children also tried to make her unhappy, but beyond these painful experiences, Shola was sometimes beaten up for flimsy reasons.

The man of the house worsened Shola‘s case as he severally raped her. The last straw that broke the camel’s back was when she returned one evening from another day of sale only to meet the man of the house all alone. As usual, he wanted to have his way with her but this time she fought back.

She was beaten to the pulp. The woman of the house who didn’t know what had transpired came into the house and saw her on the floor in tattered clothes crying bitterly and also pounced on her. Shola couldn’t take it anymore and so she ran away from the house that night and was waylaid by a gang of hoodlums who raped her to death. She was only thirteen years of age.

That little girl next door might be going through the same challenge, that woman who you see with swollen eyes might as well be going through the same challenge, will you be an ear that will listen to their outcry?