Late Elizabeth
This story will break your heart. Indeed
things are happening in the world we live in. May God protect our children. Read
how a 45-year old man narrated how his daughter died after she was sexually
molested and struggled by an undergraduate who was meant to teach her in class.
Narrating his ordeal to Crime
Guard, Ovie alleged that his second daughter was defiled and strangled by her teacher
who is also the son of the school proprietor, Mr Kola Alade. According to him, “One afternoon, my
daughter returned from school and I overheard her telling her mother that her
new uncle put his hand in her private part and touched her bum bum. Before I could come out of my room, her
mother brought her to me and she repeated it.
“I took her to the school the
following day to report to the proprietor, Mr Kola Alade who summoned the
teacher and Elizabeth repeated what she said at home. The teacher, Alade then
said in Yoruba’ mo kan ba sere ni’ meaning 7(I was just playing with her). I
then warned him seriously that such should not repeat itself again.
“The proprietor promised that such
will never happen again. My daughter
returned that day to report to me that because I came to warn her uncle, he
pressed her neck saying that ‘your parents are not here, I will deal with you.’
She made me know that the teacher is the proprietor’s son. She complained of neck pains and I went to a
nearby chemist and bought the prescribed drugs and administered it on her,
only
for her neck to swell overnight and I rushed her to the hospital that night.
“On my way, I met the school
proprietor driving out. I explained my plight to him but he said my wife and I
should wait for him. We waited but he
never returned before I got help from another neighbour who took us to the
Military Hospital at the barracks where Elizabeth was placed on drips and
antibiotics to just reduce the swollen neck but to no avail.
“All along, I was concerned with my
daughter’s recovery but with all the treatment, she was not responding to
treatment and each time she asked for food, she could not swallow when the food
was brought to her. It was after we
spent few days at the hospital that the soldiers asked about the proprietor and
I took them to the school and the proprietor claimed that he was not aware of
what happened.
He also disclosed that the teacher
who assaulted my daughter is his son and an undergraduate stating that he asked
him to help retain the class because some of his teachers had left and he never
knew it will lead to this. After this, he also insisted that he will only
produce his son if I will not be around because he was afraid of how I will
react.
And the girl died.
“We were later referred to Mother
and Child Hospital, Akure, where I was asked to buy blood but because I do not
have money, I volunteered to donate my blood and two pints was taken from me to
just save my daughter’s life. It was
then that I received a call from the police that the proprietor was negotiating
the release of his son at the Police station. When I rushed to the station to
know whether it was true, I received another call to rush back to the hospital.
“When I got to Mother and Child
hospital I saw my daughter and she stretched her hands to me and called me,
‘Daddy! Daddy!’ As soon as I moved to her and carried her, she breathed her
last.I thought it was a joke. I raised her hand, it dropped and I realized she
was gone. (After this, Ovie betrayed emotions and cried like a baby.) The doctor’s report revealed that something
struck her vaginal and strangled her on the neck. She is in the mortuary now
and what I want is justice. I want
fellow Nigerians to help me, I have three kids and have lost one. She is my carbon copy, I gave her my blood
to keep her but she has left me.”
School reacts
Reacting to the allegations on
behalf of the school management, the Proprietor, Mr Kola Alade denied all the
allegations by the father of the deceased.
He explained that Elizabeth was not assaulted as claimed by her father. “Ovie never came to my school as claimed, it
was the mother of the deceased that came to the school with her children to
complain and I summoned my Head mistress and the teacher, Adebayo who in turn
denied that anything of such happened.
“When the girl was in the hospital,
I told my Headmistress to go and visit her and we even advised the father to
take the child to Mother and Child hospital but he preferred that his child be
taken to the Military Hospital. Her father was complacent on the treatment of
his child which resulted to the death of the girl, he was reluctant all along
as he did not respond when he was called to donate blood for his daughter which
was late before he eventually did.
“Her father simply wants to tarnish
the image of my school as all he claimed are untrue. We have urged him to go
and let an autopsy be carried out on the girl but he has been avoiding that
because when we know the cause of death, we will be able to know what really
happened to the girl.” In her reaction, the Headmistress, Tinuola Ajimajasan
said Elizabeth was not beaten or assaulted as claimed, and the school was not
aware that she was sick as the little girl in question is in Kindergarten
class.
In his reaction, Ondo State Police
Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) ASP, Wole Ogodo said the suspect, Mr Adebayo Alade
has been apprehended and is presently in detention at the State Criminal
Investigations Department, SCID, Akure.
Ogodo said the post mortem will reveal the cause of death.
“We will need an expert to do the autopsy on
the deceased as the police cannot rely on any hospital to come to
conclusion.” He therefore pleaded for
patience on the part of all concerned.
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