SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION & INTERVENTION:::

SEXUAL abuse is a destroyer of hope, aspiration and dreams. It can happen to any child, male or female and within the walls of the school and outside the premises of the school.
Sometimes these abusers are within the school confines, trusted by parent, school owners and committees. Some other times they are outside the perimeter of the schools targeting and carrying out their nefarious activities on innocent children and adolescents.
I must bring into the pictures the groomers; they are the ones that take the time to plan their crime over years. They start out every friendly to these children, in turn earning their trust. Instructing them on keeping friendly secrets and turning them into their properties. They scare these children at home stage, threaten them and make them loose total sense of dignity and innocence. These categories of people are all enemies to the goal and vision of your schools. They are enemies to the future of the world. It is a very serious crime against the child and community and it is best prevented than managed.
In line with our objective of ensuring the solid future of these children entrusted in our hands, one of the important things is to make sure that our schools are safe, systems are put in place systems that will ensure we guarantee the complete innocence of our pupils until it is appropriate for them to learn about sex in the right way.
In a recent study conducted in one teaching Lagos Hospital, a child may brought in every week for medical attention as a result of sexual abuse in the hands of trusted people.
Most times it has gone on for long before someone found out. That is how bad it is!
Every child will have some level of contact with formal education in a school in our country, so that is where I believe we can start from.

OUR WORKSHOP DISCUSSES
1. Types of sexual abuse of children
2. Preventing and spotting sexual abuse in schools
3. Effect of sexual abuse on children
4. Management of the abuse child (medical)
5. How schools functionaries can understand and deal with the abused child
6. Legal implications of sexual abuse in schools and available legislation on sexual abuse of children in Nigeria.
7. Teaching defense technique for pupils
8. Where and how to access help in Nigeria
9. Life after abuse of pupils
10. The South African experience.
We are also proposing a bill, which will establish an organization to oversee the following;
1. All student are taught about spotting abusers/abusive behaviour and preventing themselves from been abused.
2. There are clear, discrete laid down procedures of reporting abuse in schools
3. All workers that come in contact with children (anybody under 18) must obtain clearance from above organization similar to a CRB check in the U.K
4. That government introduces stiffer penalties for abusers
5. The organization to be established shall have a desk at every police station in Lagos, manned by competent in hands investigation abuses. Considering the nature of the children, this desk will have to be handled by experts in child interrogation.
6. That the above organization shall carry out pre-employment check for every one that comes across a child in the course of their duties. That pre-employment check will be the extent where there is reasonable assurance that persons are safe with children of both sexes.
7. That everyone that comes in contact with a child in the course of their work will have to keep their employment record with the organization and update such records yearly. All employment gaps must be explained.
8. That the organization shall keep records and report cases of abuse to the right authorities for prosecution of offenders. Record keeping might include finger printing.
9. That the organization shall have special units that will deliver knowledge to schools and the society on sexual abuse of children.
10. That the organization shall have branches in every local government and local development areas to oversee the topic in issue.
11. That records of convicted abusers can be accessed by the public
12. The organization shall be funded privately.
13. That the management of the organization shall be independent

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