The alleged molestation of an 11-year-old JSS1 student in Deeper Life High School, Idoro Uyo, in Akwa Ibom State has taken a new turn for the worse.
This is as the parents are demanding for payment of N100 million compensation for alleged inhuman torture of their son in the school.
The parents – Mr and Mrs Iniobong Archibong- in the letter signed by David Okokon (Esq) sent through their solicitors, Eagle-Eyes Network Chambers, to the school.
It is entitled “Gross Child abuse, palpable molestation, serial bullying, criminal starvation, malicious oppression, and dubious maltreatment of Master Don-Davies Archibong (11 years old) by the Principal and Boarding Master, of Deeper Life Secondary School, Uyo.”
In the letter of December 22, 2020 addressed to the school’s Principal and obtained by newsmen on Friday in Uyo, the school was given 21 days of the receipt of the letter to pay N100 million compensation.
The letter 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.
“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.”
Already, Akwa Ibom State government, Wednesday, backed down from investigating the matter and handed over the case to police.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Ini Ememobong, who stated this Thursday in Uyo, appealed to the public to exercise patience for a thorough investigation to be carried out by the police and other relevant institutions.
