A 14yrs old girl, identified as Desola Adeoye has committed suicide in Shogunle community, Lagos. It was learnt that she drank insecticide to escape torture from her father.
It was gathered that, the deceased who has suffered untold domestic violence in the hands of her biological father, Adeoye and step mother returned from summer and was receiving threats from her step mother that when the father comes he will deal with her got worried by the threat, sneaked out of the house and drank the insecticide kept in the house.
Vanguard reported that the father came back, he quickly retrieved her lifeless body from the hospital, took it back home with the intention of burying her secretly.
His plan was, however, thwarted by police operatives from Shogunle Divisional Police station, who were alerted by neighbors.
A neighbor, who drew the attention of a non-governmental organization called, Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, ACVPN, to the incident told Vanguard: “The late Desola and her two younger sisters were regularly subjected to domestic violence by their biological father and stepmother every time they made mistake.”
The neighbor further said that Desola was sacred of been beaten by the father again and decide to take her own life.
“Shogunle Community Development Association in Oshodi, CDA, had, on numerous occasions, cautioned their father and stepmother to stop the physical abuse unleashed on their children especially late Desola Adeoye.”
Reacting to the development, Chief Operating Officer, ACVPN, Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, called on Lagos State government, the Nigeria Police and Nigeria Bar Association to rescue the remaining two children still under the care of the couple and also get justice for the late Desola.