Some stakeholders expressed concern over the rise in young children being engaged as home helps due to the prevailing economic challenges.
There are laws enacted to protect Nigerian children from various forms of abuse, yet many underage home helps still find themselves dehumanised.
Those raped endure it because they are unable to escape, or were threatened with death if they told anyone. ILO describes child labour as work that deprives children of their livelihood, their potentialities and their dignity as well as that which is harmful to their physical and mental development. For instance, a nursing mother, Ifeoma Ezia, was arrested on 5 July 2020, in Enugu State, for piercing a six-inch nail into the head of her 10-year-old maid.
The victim accused her boss of always tying her hands and legs and raping her. He thereafter forced her to take contraceptives and always threatened to kill her if she told anyone about her experiences. Some stakeholders, who expressed concern over the rise in young children being engaged as home helps due to the prevailing economic challenges, said that the menace required urgent action to be taken against perpetrators.
"Ignorance of the law is not an excuse and poverty should not make anyone do what is wrong, children have rights, grant them those rights. "If you see something bad happening to a child, say it. We have what we call informant protection. If you report a case, you are protected; your identity will not be revealed.
Ms Francis said that child labour destroyed the health, development and education of children and that parents should not fight poverty by exploiting their children.
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