Four female children were accused of witchcraft and rescued
on Tuesday 25th October, a Facebook user who witnessed the incident wrote:
"Four female children were yesterday rescued by a good
Samaritan around 1:00am in the night. The children whose origins are yet to be
identified said they were told in a prayer house that they were witches, an
allegation which compelled their parent to abandoned them in another prayers
house which they went for deliverance, for years without bringing them food.
"Their parent later came to the church at the instance of the
pastor, pick them and put them in a waiting car which drove them to the Abak
bridge and dropped them there.
"The children were malnourished and seen with wounds,
bruises, and scars in different parts of their body indicative of variant
degrees of torture, which of course are not uncommon with children who suffer
similar faith consequent upon witchcraft stigmatization.
"‘My father said he’s afraid of God, he would have killed us
as instructed by the prophets," one of the children said.
A human rights activist who rescued them said:
"Children have continued to be abandoned in Akwa Ibom State,
Nigeria over witchcraft allegation by parents after desperate and nouveau riche
pastors and prophets label witches/wizards and made their parents force them on
the streets if not killed.
These children were lucky to be rescued yesterday in the wee
hours of the night at Abak new bridge otherwise, they would have been picked by
the lurking human traffickers or ritual killers who maraud the streets in
search of children for diabolic purposes."
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