#JusticeForDonDavis: Parents Of 11-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Molested At Deeper Life School Demand N100m Compensation
Parents of Don-Davies Archibong, a 11-year-old student of Deeper Life High School in Akwa-Ibom State, have demanded the sum of N100,000 million as compensation for the inhuman torture their son was allegedly subjected to in the institution.
It would be recalled that the boy’s mother, Mrs Deborah Okezie, in December 2020 alleged that some senior pupils sexually molested her son by pushing their hands and legs into his anus and threatened to kill him if he reported to anyone.
She also alleged that the young boy was being maltreated in the school and was not being properly fed despite full payment of necessary fees.
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The demand of the parents is contained in a letter addressed to the Principal of the School, entitled “Gross Child abuse, palpable molestation, serial bullying, criminal starvation, malicious oppression, and dubious maltreatment of master Don-Davies Archibong (11years old) by the Principal and Boarding Master, of Deeper Life Secondary School, Uyo”.
Mr and Mrs Iniobong Archibong sent it through their solicitors, Eagle-Eyes Network Chambers signed by one David Okokon (Esq), Vanguard reports.
According to the letter dated December 22, 2020, the School was given 21 days of the receipt of the letter to pay the N100 million compensation.
The document reads in part;
We are solicitors to Mr. and Mrs, Iniobong Archibong, resident in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State herein after referred to as our client. We have the firm explicit and unequivocal instructions to write to you on the above subject matter.
It is indeed provocatively heartbroken, morally suicidal, religiously hypocritical that our client’s 11 year old son was torrentially bombarded with physical, and inhuman torture of debilitating dimension with resultant castration of his human person, dignity, and childhood innocence.
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They stressed;
We respectfully demand the payment of N100,000,000 within 21 days of the receipt of this letter as compensation to assuage the dehumanizing, horrendous torture and indignity our client’s son was subjected to and for his medical checkup and medication.
We demand that Deeper Life High School Idoro, Uyo to publish an unreserved apology to our clients in two National Newspapers; PUNCH, THISDAY, and any other two local Newspapers circulated within Akwa Ibom State and its environs.
Since the allegation came to light, many Nigerians as well as human rights groups have demanded justice for the young boy.
