Issues concerning child abuse have been popular in the local media and it seems to be fading away so soon. Protests and campaigns against violence and child abuse of children should become more proactive. This is because numerous forms of abuses go on and on and we sit back and look on.
Evils such as child trafficking, child sacrifice, child soldiers, defilement, child battering, child labour, domestic violence, and child prostitution are some of the abuses children have had to live with through out their lives. We have tremendously sinned against the innocent children in so many ways and the list is endless.
The motherly heart of a woman has disappeared, because if we look at most of the evils that happen to children it has its genesis with the cruelty of a woman. Some kinds of child abuses start early. For instance, with every puff of cigarette, your baby absorbs growth-retarding diseases of nicotine, carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen chloride. Mothers who are supposed to love care and protect children start destroying them with bad habits such as smoking, alcoholism and ‘indiscipline’ acts during their pregnancies. As if the torture given to them is not enough during pregnancy then comes, the physical and psychological neglect of a child after birth. For useless purposes such as looking young, little headed mothers refuse to breast feed their babies and deny them the natural nutrients God prepared for children in their breast!
In a recent documentary on BBC, it was repoted that lots of children especially the girl child were being shipped to the west to be used as child prostitutes. The documentary talked about a teenage Nigerian girl who left her Home in search for greener pastures only to be deceived by a selfish cruel woman who helped her crossover to western Europe, only to use her as a money making tool in prostitution. The girl was found by one of the BBC reporter who took the responsibility of returning her the right authorities who returned her safely back to Nigeria. On return several medical check ups were done and she was found with the deadly disease. The poor girl will now live with the nightmare of the disease. This reminds me of the issue of cross generational sex. Big pot bellied men old enough to be grand parents have no shame in luring young children into sex. So many cases have been reported in the print media about a father who used his own daughter. The sodomy way of life has captured the world and when God pours down his wrath, we should not be surprised. But it is not too late for us to change and pray to God for forgiveness.
We should realize that a lot of evils are going on in the world and it should not chock us. The financial credit systems are failing, terrorist attacks are rampant, high crime rate and leaders with virtue are no more. All this is because we have neglected the word of God which commands us to love and bless the little ones. In Matthew 18:10 God warns us not to despise and abuse children because they are a blessing.
Indeed increasing crime rate such as cases of defilement, burning of schools and the magnitude of street children show how greatly we have wronged the innocent children. We have innocent blood shading in our hands and these children are crying aloud to God. If we want to avoid curses and the wrath of God, let us stop
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