15 Children Defiled By Fathers, Uncles In Enugu – FIDA

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.