A 15-year-old school girl in Delta State, who identified herself as Emmanuella, has cried out for help, urging relevant authorities to rescue her from her mother who is allegedly trying to force her into child prostitution.
Emmanuella, who claims to be in Senior Secondary School student at Effurun, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, has alleged that her biological mother had contracted her to unnamed men to take sexual advantage of her.
This was contained in a video sighted by newsmen in Warri where the girl specifically stated that her mother took her to meet a man in a hotel on Sunday and thereafter eloped after dropping her off with the man.
She said, “My mother has been taking me to men. And last Sunday, after church, she took me to meet a man in a hotel. She left and said that she was coming back. She did not come back till the evening, and left me there.”
Emmanuella told newsmen that her mother took her to one Hotel at Orhuworun Road, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State “to meet an Aboki man and said she was coming back, and till it was late, she didn’t return.”
The girl said that she, however, “managed to escape from the hotel room, when the Aboki man went to have a bath.”
Emmanuella added, “This is not the first time my mother is taking me out to go and meet different men. And she is always concerned about me and marriage.” When contacted on the phone, Emmanuella’s mother, identified only as Eunice, said that her daughter had been missing from home, adding that she had “been searching for her.” She said, “My daughter, Emmanuella, has been missing for days and I have been searching for her everywhere and could not find her. I don’t know her whereabouts. I am looking for her.”
Speaking further, the mother noted that she had reported the matter to the police at the division close to them and the police were also searching for her.
The proprietor of her school explained how Emmanuella got to school on Monday sobbing and narrating her ordeals in the hands of her mother who, she said, wanted to force her into prostitution.
She said that the school management thereafter contacted law enforcement agents on the matter. Meanwhile, the incident has been reported at Ovwian Police Station in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State.
