15 Children Defiled By Fathers, Uncles InEnugu – FIDA

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The International Federation of Women
Lawyers, FIDA, on Thursday, expressed their
concern over the increasing rate at which
children are being defiled in Enugu.
No fewer than 15 children were defiled from
July to November this year in the state,
according to the group.
Nkiru Ugwu-Nwabueze, Chairman of the
organization in Enugu State, who disclosed
this during its 2013 week with the theme
"Women Empowerment and Sustainable
Development With Emphasis on the Gains/
Challenges", held at the Filbon Hotel, Enugu,
said the children were defiled by those they
called uncles and brothers.
Ugwu-Nwabueze also advised parents to
always give their female children sex
education to enable them know some sensitive
parts of the body.
Ugwu-Nwabueze stated a recent cases which
FIDA handled was that of a 3-year-old girl
defiled by the girl's biological father.
She disclosed that the evil father defiled the
girl while changing her pampers, like that was
not wicked enough, after committing the
crime, the man claimed that his wife, who
raised the alarm, was mad.
She also disclosed that FIDA facilitated the
arrest of a man who started defiling a girl
when she was 5 years, adding that there was
another case of a 9-year-old girl who was
recently defiled by her uncle at Ezeagu, in
Enugu State.
Earlier in her welcome address, the
Chairperson of FIDA Week/20th Anniversary
Planning Committee, Edith Okorie had said
that the theme of the week long event was
very apt.
"When you empower a woman, you have
empowered a nation", she noted.
In her paper entitled "Women Empowerment,
its Gains and Challenges", which was
presented at the event, the Solicitor-General/
Permanent Secretary Ministry of Justice,
Enugu, Mrs A. Onaga, had stated that
President Goodluck Jonathan had gone a long
way in giving effective opportunity to women
in political and public office appointment.
Jonathan's administration, according to her,
had scored high marks on the empowerment
of women.