A 14-year-old girl named Desola Adeoye has committed suicide in Lagos’ Shogunle community.
According to a Vanguard report, Desola, who had allegedly suffered untold violence at the hands of her father, Sunday Adeoye, and his wife, drank insecticide to escape torture.
It was gathered that she decided to commit suicide after her stepmother allegedly threatened her when she got home from summer school. She reportedly told her that when her father returned, he would pounce on her.
Worried by the threat, Desola sneaked out of the house and drank the insecticide kept in the house. She was reportedly rushed to a nearby private hospital, where she gave up the ghost.
When her father came back, he quickly retrieved her lifeless body from the hospital and took it back home with the intention of burying her secretly. This was, however, stopped by police operatives from Shogunle Divisional Police Station, who were alerted by neighbors.
A neighbor who confirmed the alleged torture that Desola and her siblings had been passing through told the publication:
“The late Desola and her two younger sisters were regularly subjected to domestic violence by their biological father and stepmother every time they made a mistake.
“Shogunle Community Development Association in Oshodi, CDA, had, on numerous occasions, cautioned their father and stepmother to stop the physical abuse unleashed on their children, especially late Desola Adeoye.”
The Chief Executive Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, Mr. Ebenezer Omejalile, has called on the Lagos State government, the Nigeria Police, and the Nigeria Bar Association to rescue the remaining two children still under the care of the couple and also get justice for the late Desola.
