Nigerian Witch Hunts Leads To Abused Children
From CNN
Christian Eshiett was a rambunctious pre-teen who spent a lot of time cavorting with his friends in southern Nigeria. He would skip school and run away from home for days, frustrating his grandfather, who oversaw the boy’s care.
“I beat him severely with canes until they broke, yet he never shed a tear,” said Eshiett Nelson Eshiett, 76. “One day, I took a broom to hit him and he started crying. Then I knew he was possessed by demons. … Nigerian witches are terrified of brooms.”
From that day two years ago, Christian, now 14, was branded a witch. The abuse intensified.
“They would take my clothes off, tie me up and beat me,” he told CNN in a telephone interview.
The teen is one of the so-called witch children in Eket, a city in oil-rich Akwa Ibom state of Nigeria.
They are blamed for causing illness, death and destruction, prompting some communities to put them through harrowing punishments to “cleanse” them of their supposed magical powers.
“Children accused of witchcraft are often incarcerated in churches for weeks on end and beaten, starved and tortured in order to extract a confession,” said Gary Foxcroft, program director of Stepping Stones Nigeria, a nonprofit that helps alleged witch children in the region.
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these are the limits for a country with no hope no love but hunger and starvation for knowledge to kick away old pagans religion and new ones that becomes habits this is just a cycle that happen to hit some where else that had no media now when a black makes money of it now it get media and every one are look down at like this is the first this you forget what the first chritian do and the first judaism attemted whit abreham and his son this wont until hits home and the truth of the world for the righteous ness it need will come out none of us is better when we critisize
Without the knowledge of YAH ALMIGHTY….no life would exist on the planet……Where are the children of Israel, to deliver these evil nations from themselves?……
The creator must hurt and anger at what he has created….for they have evil imaginations continually and to do good they have no knowledge………..
May YAH bring the Children of Israel together, speedily, so that we can save the innocent…..
The devil is a lie and the truth is not in him. This is truly not the act of the true Living God. I pray that the Lord watch over the children. my heart and prayers goes out to each of them.
My heart hurts….
….This is ridiculous…. I can’t say what i’m really feeling. That is not christ like at all…
I could not even finish reading this article…how upsetting.