Grieving mother knocks FCT school, alleges 14 year old daughter died after defilement
A 14 year old pupil of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, has died of an infection in her private parts.
The SS1 pupil was believed to have been sexually abused before she was withdrawn from the school by her mother on June 19, 2021 for treatment.
The pupil, however, died two days later in the hospital in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja.
The mother said she received a frantic call from her daughter a a few days before her death, asking her to come and withdraw her from the school because she was not feeling well.
She said, although the school was unwilling to release the pupil and even argued that there was no need to fret, her daughter remained adamant and even cried that she wanted to go home.
“When i called the principal, he said my daughter would need to be isolated for five days (upon her return). I felt that i should go home since the school said it could take care of her. On my way home, my daughter called again using the school’s phone and asked where i was. I told her that i came but turned back and she started crying.
“So i got angry and asked her why she was stressing me since she would be returning home soon for holiday. So, she asked to speak to her uncle. She said, ‘You people don’t know why i am asking you to come and pick me and you are leaving”.
The distraught mother stated that while she was still contemplating whether to return to the school, she was informed by the housemother that Karen-Happuch could hardly walk the day before and had been crying. Th housemother advised that the young girl be taken to the hospital for proper check up.
She added that she picked up her daughter, but when she was brought home, she was not her usual self and she seemed withdrawn.
“But, by the morning of Monday, June 21, 2021, i noticed that he condition had deteriorated and took her to the hospital, and while examining her, the doctor saw a discharge, ran a test and discovered that it was a condom that was left in her. They tested her urine and it contained sperm, and like that, infection and sepsis led to her death”.
When asked if her daughter revealed the identity of the person who defiled her, the bereaved mother responded, “I picked her up on June 19 and i she died on June 21. She slipped into a coma and died. She was traumatized”.
She said she challenged Premiere Academy but the institution only promised to look into the matter.
She added that she wrote a petition to the FCT Police Command and some employees of the school were invited for questioning.
The grieving mother said her daughter had a dream of becoming a nurse, having been diagnosed with diabetes at age nine, but that dream had been cut short.
The mother got information that at least three employees of the school had been dismissed for sexual abuse, but the management was more concerned with protecting its image.
