Lagos State Government has vowed to prosecute a 70-year old woman for applying pepper on a 12-year old boy’s private part over alleged stealing.
The government will also prosecute another woman who engaged in alms begging with two children she brought from the village to assist her in trading.
The children were brought to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA), after they were rescued in Badagry, Ajangbadi and Maza-Maza areas of the state by government officials and the police on Tuesday.
The Permanent Secretary, WAPA, Omobolanle Ogunmola, said the ministry got a text message that a 12-year old child (name withheld) was being abused by a woman, who is around 70 years of age over alleged stealing by applying pepper in his private part and beating him severely with marks on his body.
“Our team went to Badagry to rescue the boy who attends Ansar-Ud-Deen Secondary School. From the information gotten from the school, the accused persons are old. The woman is around 70 years and the husband is over 75 years. So we could not arrest them, but that does not mean we are not going to prosecute them. We are going to prosecute them. We will take custody of the boy and take him to school in one of our transient homes,” she said.
Ogunmola said the state government had declared zero tolerance on child abuse and domestic violence, saying that government would not hesitate to prosecute people found to have violated the rights of children in the state.
On the woman who engaged two children for begging, Ogunmola said government was also going to prosecute the woman for the act, advising parents to live up to their responsibilities by not releasing their children to live with others without proper investigation.
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