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Aug 2019
And there she lay, dead,
Bloodied, vomitus and all,
Darkened stripes lined her back,
Her small frame curled up, lifeless;

No older than three Christmases,
She'll never see another Easter egg,
What ever she would become,
Now, most certainly, we'd never know.
A child was flogged to death by one of her parents. As it was confirmed dead by doctors, the mother took off with the corpse.

No one knows the whereabouts of the body not the parents, just documentary photographs showing the dead little ******* an examination table with her back torn to shreds by strokes of cane.

What kind of monster would do that to an innocent child? What crueller beast would take the body away without pressing for justice?

Only in Nigeria. SHAME.
Dada Olowo Eyo
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Dada Olowo Eyo  NIGERIA
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