by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 30, 2023 | Child Abuse
The 39-year-old married Kenyan man is accused of defiling his neighbor’s 12-year-old daughter, in violation of section 8 (1) of the 2006 Sexual Offences Act (SOA). Carpenter Erastus Maingi Kavita of Soweto, Nairobi, is charged with defiling the minor on several...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 28, 2023 | Child Abuse
The village elders sentenced an 18-year-old girl to death for dancing with a boy in a video that went popular on Pakistani social media. It is reported that the girl was killed by her own family. In Pakistan’s rugged Kohistan province, the homicide took place on...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 22, 2023 | Child Abuse
Jegede Folorunsho, 54, has been sent under remand to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre after it was alleged that he defiled an eight-year-old girl in the Lagos State neighbourhood of Mushin. On Monday, November 20, 2023, the defendant appeared in Magistrate O.M....
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 21, 2023 | Child Abuse
A male nanny from California, USA, received a prison sentence exceeding 700 years. During his Friday, November 17 court appearance, 34-year-old Matthew Zakrzewski said he “prided himself” on making the kids he sexually molested happy. The Orange County...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 20, 2023 | Child Abuse
Anthony Mgbe, 70, was remanded in prison by an Enugu State magistrate court after he killed and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Uchechukwu Onwuzuru, the victim—who was described as deaf and dumb—bled to death following what is believed to have been a violent...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 16, 2023 | Child Abuse
James Rich, 31, has been taken into custody by the Anambra State Police Command on charges of defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in Awka. In a statement released on Thursday, November 16, 2023, the State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon. Ify...