Guys, please take your time and read this heart breaking story I found in Nigeria Tribune. This story will surely melt your heart. Read below:
Looking at the picture of
two-year-old Lovelyn William will elicit tears from the heart of any human
being. Naked, with her mouth tapered,
hands tied backwards and legs tied together, she lay on the floor of a room at
Itori in Ogun State. It was her stepmother, 28-year-old
Christiana Faturoti, who allegedly threw her there as a punishment because she
soiled herself. After putting the child in the room, she padlocked it and left
for her workplace. For over two hours on February 17,
the little girl, who turned two on February 15, 2015, groaned and moaned, until
a neighbour heard the sound and traced it to an unoccupied room which was
padlocked. After peeping and seeing the girl in such a condition, the neighbour
quickly alerted the police at Itori police station. Christiana was promptly
arrested and is currently undergoing interrogation at the Anti-Human
Trafficking section of the Department of Criminal Investigation, Ogun State
Police Command.
Lovelyn’s mother was reported to
have developed baby blues (mental illness) after birth and is currently at a
psychiatric hospital where she is undergoing treatment. Crime Reports learnt
that the child’s father, Mr Christopher William, met Christiana on the facebook,
after which they started a relationship. Willam (37), from Abia State who
spoke with Crime Reports, said: “Christiana posted a notice on facebook that a
single lady from Osun State, a mother of one, needed a husband. I called the
number and asked that we meet.
“I sent her N5,000 as transport fare
to Lagos State and she came in February 2013. She slept in my place and left
the following day. We lost contact for about two months. Later, she called me
that she was pregnant and I told her to come over to Lagos. We went to my
mother in Abia State in June and spent about a week there. “In October 2013, I told Christiana
to move in with me until she would deliver her baby, after which we would go to
her family for marriage formalisation. To my surprise, she refused, saying that
she had to get the consent of her friend, Dekola Elizabeth. She later called
and said her friend disagreed with my suggestion.
“When she put to bed on December 5,
2013 and I was informed, I still repeated my suggestion but she refused. I said
we would hold the naming ceremony when the baby would be three months according
to my culture but she named the baby herself on the seventh day. “All these led to a disagreement for
a while until I called her for settlement again and I promised to be visiting.
In November 2014, she said she wanted to see my daughter. Then my daughter,
Lovelyn, was with a care giver whom I was paying N12,000 per month. She
suggested that she take the little girl to stay with her along with her son.
That was same November. “I agreed with the idea and she took
my daughter.
“Any time I went there, the friend
would not allow me to sleep over. She would be looking at her watch, telling me
it was time to leave. If I desired to have private discussion with Christiana,
she would ask me to say everything in the presence of her friend. “My daughter was two years old on
February 15, so on February 14, I called her that we should celebrate
Valentine’s Day together so that the following day, we could mark my daughter’s
birthday but she said no, she had a church programme. On February 15, I was at
Christiana’s place. “I noticed that my baby was wearing
two dresses. I removed the dresses and saw whip marks on my daughter’s body. I
also saw another mark on her face and noticed that her eyes were bloodshot. On
enquiries, Christiana said my daughter got the marks from school.
“I called her friend’s attention to
it but her response was ‘That is your business’. I made up my mind to go with
my daughter but Christiana said she would put her in her own class in school. I
gave her N5,000 and said I would be back on Wednesday. “I was surprised when I received a
call on February 17 from Itori police station. When I got there, I was shown my
daughter’s picture and I started weeping. I inquired on what I did to warrant
the treatment and I was told she said I loved the girl more than her son.” Christopher said the lady’s family
had been begging her but said his relationship with her was over. “If she could
do this to my daughter, it means my life is in danger too.”
Christiana, from Imesi-Ile, Osun
State, told Crime Reports that “the girl did not offend me but I was not happy
at the way Christopher neglected me and the baby I had for him, and
concentrated on his daughter. “I met Christopher on facebook in
December 2012. He told me he had a child but was single. I also told him I was
a single mother of one. He proposed a relationship and I went to Lagos State to
see him. When I got pregnant, I went to his parents in Abia State. On our
return, I asked him to accompany me to my parents’ but he said he was not ready
to go, telling me to pack into his house. I refused and he stopped coming to
me.
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| Christiana |
“After delivery, I called him and he
came with N5,000, diapers and clothes. He did not come for the naming ceremony;
I named the child myself. “In September, 2014, he called to
apologise and said he would start performing his responsibility. In October, he
said his daughter’s care giver had travelled and his relations were using the
girl to extort money from him. He said I should get an accommodation for him so
that he would move close to me. Christopher started coming regularly and would
bring provisions. “It is true I beat the girl which
left marks on her. She soiled herself and I was angry with her. On February 17,
she soiled herself again, so I tied her hands and legs, tapered her mouth and
threw her inside the room the father paid for, though yet to move in. I
padlocked the room and left for my workplace at about 7a.m. I just wanted to
punish her.” When asked to describe her
action, Christiana replied: “Wicked”.
Christiana’s friend, Diekola
Elizabeth from Eruwa, Oyo State (27), who was also arrested, told Crime Reports
that “I didn’t know about what Christiana did to Lovelyn. I was not a party to
it, though I also beat her once when she soiled herself. “It is true that Christopher pointed
my attention to the marks on the child’s body and said that he wanted to go
with her, but I replied that the choice was his because it was none of my
business.”
Reacting to the story, the police
image maker in Ogun state Police Command, DSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, described the
suspect’s act as inhuman. “The Commissioner of Police, Valentine Ntomchukwu, has
ordered a thorough investigation of the case, after which the suspect(s) will
be charged to court,” he stated.
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