Child witches in Africa
December 29, 2007
Read this: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2224553,00.html
Where is the “USA for Africa/We are the world” outpouring over these atrocities? Are any churches funding these ‘missionaries’ in Africa?
‘My youngest brother died. The pastor told my mother it was because I was a witch. Three men came to my house. I didn’t know these men. My mother left the house. Left these men. They beat me.’ She pushes her fists under her chin to show how her father lay, stretched out on his stomach on the floor of their hut, watching. After the beating there was a trip to the church for ‘a deliverance’.
Nwaeka is about 16. She sits by herself in the mud, her eyes rolling, scratching at her stick-thin arms. The other children are surprisingly patient with her. The wound on her head where a nail was driven in looks to be healing well. Nine- year-old Etido had nails, too, five of them across the crown of his downy head. Its hard to tell what damage has been done. Udo, now 12, was beaten and abandoned by his mother. He nearly lost his arm after villagers, finding him foraging for food by the roadside, saw him as a witch and hacked at him with machetes.
Magrose is seven. Her mother dug a pit in the wood and tried to bury her alive. Michael was found by a farmer clearing a ditch, starving and unable to stand on legs that had been flogged raw.
Truly sickening to read. There’s a video there to watch as well, but I’m not sure I have the stomach for it.
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December 30th, 2007 at 11:20 am
The video doesn’t have a lot of grisly anything in it. The worst is really wounds on one child’s ankle. Mostly it’s interviews with people.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Oh,and if you want to address your concerns about this, just send mail to Peter Akinola, the Anglican bishop of Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.
He’s a known troublemaker; he’s gone and created all kinds of problems with The Episcopal Church in the United States by doing some major diocese-jumping and poaching. It’s very ugly and I ran screaming from the whole scene.
To learn more, read http://frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com
He is tracking all of this mess.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Thanks for the heads-up Tracie. I sort of figured there might not be a lot of horridness in the video, but didn’t really want to take the chance. And thanks for the link. Akinola plays what role in this? Troublemaker how? Bringing this to public scrutiny?