by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 20, 2023 | Rape
Authorities in Mpumalanga, South Africa, have verified that a suspect in the rape and killing of 6-year-old Bontle Mashiyane was killed by burning at the stake by locals in Mataffin, Mbombela. A traditional healer known as Mangebeletane Samuel Tsela, 63, was among the...
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...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 15, 2023 | Child Abuse
Due to allegations of abusing a female student, the resident pastor and teacher at St. Peter’s Combined Christian School in Mohlaletsi village, Sekhukhune District, Limpopo, South Africa, has been placed on administrative leave. On November 12, 2023, the...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Aug 30, 2023 | Child Abuse
One day after being saved from a pit latrine in the community of Otuocha, Anambra East Local Government Area, Anambra State, a newborn male infant died. Nwaedoka Chidimma, a 20-year-old woman from the Izzi village in Ebonyi State, is said to have abandoned her infant...
