A 15-year-old college woman in Delta State, Emmanuella Monday, has cried out for assist from her hideout, after escaping from a person who her mom allegedly gave her to, urging related authorities to rescue her from her ‘abusive’ mom who she accused of allegedly attempting to drive her into youngster prostitution in change for cash.
Emmanuella, who claims to be in Senior Secondary Faculty 2 at Triumphant Faculty, Effurun, in Uvwie Native Authorities Space of Delta State, alleged that her organic mom had contracted her to unnamed males to take sexual benefit of her.
This was contained in a video sighted by our correspondent in Warri the place the woman particularly said that her mom took her to satisfy a person in a resort on Sunday and thereafter eloped after dropping her off with the person.
Emmanuella mentioned, “My mom has been taking me to males. And final Sunday, after church, she took me to satisfy a person in a resort. She left and mentioned that she was coming again. She didn’t come again until the night, and left me there.”
Emmanuella informed PUNCH Metro that her mom took her to at least one Beeland Lodge at Orhuworun Street, Udu Native Authorities Space of Delta State “to satisfy an Aboki man and mentioned she was coming again, and until it was late, she didn’t return.”
The woman knowledgeable PUNCH Metro that she nevertheless “managed to flee from the resort room, when the Aboki man went to have a shower.”
However she deposed that she consequently turned infuriated and refused to return to the home.
She added, “So, on getting out of the resort room, I didn’t go to the home once more. I managed to search out my approach to a pal’s home and stayed with that household in a single day. On Monday morning, I went to highschool and reported the matter to my trainer. And my trainer mentioned she was going to do one thing in regards to the matter.”
Emmanuella added, “This isn’t the primary time my mom is taking me out to go and meet totally different males. And he or she is at all times involved about me and marriage.”
When contacted on the telephone, Emmanuella’s mom, Mrs. Eunice Asulie, informed our correspondent that her daughter had been lacking from residence, including that she had “been looking for her.”
She mentioned, “My daughter, Emmanuella, has been lacking for days and I’ve been looking for her in all places and couldn’t discover her. I don’t know her whereabouts. I’m on the lookout for her.”
Talking additional, the mom said that she had reported the matter to the police on the division near them and the police have been additionally looking for her.
The proprietress of Triumphant Faculties, Mrs Magareth Oghuvwu, defined how Emmanuella acquired to highschool on Monday amidst sobs, narrating her ordeals within the fingers of her personal mom who, she mentioned, wished to drive her into prostitution.
Oghuvwu posited that the college administration thereafter contacted legislation enforcement brokers on the matter.
The proprietress spoke additional, “On Monday morning, we didn’t see her at school. After a while, we noticed her sneaking into college with tears in her eyes. We requested her what occurred and she or he mentioned that on Sunday, her mom took her to Beeland Lodge and handed her over to an Aboki man, with all her garments like a type of a wedding.
“She performed alongside and waited for the Aboki man to go take his bathtub and are available out. Whereas the person was bathing, she ran out and she or he needed to spend the evening in her pal’s mom’s home.
“As we converse, I’m scared. I don’t know if I ought to launch the kid to her mom or go to the police. I needed to go to the human rights teams and contain them.
“The woman is even scared. Up until now, she can not even come out as a result of she is fearful of her father and mom on the lookout for her.”
She mentioned it was additionally gathered that the daddy and mom have been now not collectively.
Peeved by the incident, a human rights activist, Comrade Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho, despatched a petition to the Delta State workplace of the Nationwide Human Rights Fee, in search of justice for Emmanuella.
Within the petition titled, ‘Defend Miss Emmanuella Monday from Youngster Trafficking,’ dated October 17, 2024, and sighted by PUNCH Metro, Aghogho famous that “the organic mom had allegedly bought her daughter to a suspected intercourse trafficker,” concluding that the woman’s rights have been “grossly violated.”
All efforts made by our correspondent to achieve the Delta State Coordinator of the Nationwide Human Rights Fee, Mrs Angela Ogbame, on the matter have been futile as of the time of submitting this report. Messages despatched to her WhatsApp quantity have been additionally not replied.
In the meantime, the incident was nevertheless reported at Ovwian Police Station in Udu Native Authorities Space of Delta State on Sunday October 20, 2024.
Inspector Esther Obukowho was assigned because the Investigating Police Officer, who took assertion from the human rights activist who reported the case, Comrade Aghogho Ighorhiohwunu, because the complainant.
The police have taken motion to take Emmanuella into police safety custody pending the result of investigation to unravel the circumstances of the case.
