CHILD ABUSE MUST END.

 by Ogunsola Oluwatosin

It is now a cause of concern with the rate of child abuse in the country. Many grown up in the country are gradually turning into monsters. There has been a lot of alarming reports of grown men defiling toddlers and little children not even up to the age of ten.

A research conducted has revealed the country has the largest cases of child defiling which is gradually becoming a cause for alarm. At least cases of rape are reported daily on the pages of various newspapers.  Only last week there was a case of a thirteen year old girl that was defiled by a man in his forties, which leaves us pondering, are our men gradually losing their sanity?

This heinous and barbaric act should be stopped before it gets completely out of hand, because we are talking about our future leaders here. We should think about the emotional pain and also the physical pain being melted to these innocent girls.

Our legislative and judiciary are not helping matters as corruption has eaten deep into the system which makes it difficult to rely on them but if stiff laws are passed on these culprits, it will deter them from engaging in this abnormal act.

If this problem is not addressed soon enough, in few years, Nigeria might emerge to be one of the countries with highest rate of child abuse around the globe.

It has to end now, a death penalty should be passed to any individual that engages in this act and also parents should be held accountable for not taking care of their children appropriately and putting them in harm’s way. Child defiling is a serious disease that should be eradicated before it gets out of hand.