A headmaster of the Nkwatia Presby Senior High School in the Eastern Region has been accused of extreme physical abuse on a female student identified as Diana, leading to her alleged partial blindness.
According to a blogger who posted the information on his Twitter handle @SIKAOFFICIAL1, with images of the victim looking forlorn and with a black eye, the incident happened when the student, who is in second year, had reportedly left school without an exeat.
However, it later turned out that she actually had permission to leave campus, but the headmaster, who is in charge of academics, refused to listen when she tried explaining to him.
“He made her kneel down for a period of time and when she told him that she was unwell, his alleged response was that he would lash her to make her feel better. She mistakenly held his cane when he was about to lash her and this infuriated him and prompted him to land a hefty slap on her face, after which he beat her up,” the blogger reported.
There are conflicting reports on exactly what transpired, as social media is filled with different versions of the story. However, all accounts so far point out how Diana was mercilessly beaten by the headmaster in question and allegedly mistreated on campus.
One social media user who claims to have a sibling in the school also alleges that Diana was later discriminated against by some other teachers and was isolated to write her exam in the staff common room.
Netizens have called on the Ghana Education Service to take up the matter, as s instances of maltreatment within Senior High Schools, involving either teachers or students mistreating fellow students, have become increasingly prevalent.
Victim of the assault incident, which took place at Adisadel College, has disclosed the apparent cause of the abuse inflicted on him in the viral video.
He said the incident occurred as result of a misunderstanding that ensued between him the the other student who ended up hurting him severely.
Narrating the events in the lead up of the fight, he stated that: “He had my sim card and I asked for it but he refused and that is what started the fight.”
As it has commended the school administration for acting quickly to suspend the offender pending more inquiry.
The housemaster in charge of the students has also been suspended.
Mother of the Adisadel College assault victim on the other hand has disclosed that she became aware of the incident four weeks after it occurred.
In a viral video, her son was subjected to a violent attack by another student in a dormitory on June 30, 2023.
The video has ignited widespread outrage throughout the country and raised serious concerns about the safety and well-being of students in educational institutions.
Ms. Margaret Annor Afari spoke with journalists on Tuesday, July 25, explaining that she was only notified of the assault on her son on Monday, July 24, after the video had already circulated widely.
However, she expressed her inability to watch the video due to the distressing and violent nature of the incident her son endured.
“I don’t want to see the video. I have heard it being described but I have not seen it and I don’t want to see it. It was the elder brother who saw it yesterday and called the housemaster who later called me to explain the incident,” she said amidst tears.
She appealed to the school authorities to allow her son, who has been sent home, to stay in school to write the final exams.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international campaign group, has leveled accusations against Tunisian security agents, alleging “serious abuses” against black African migrants seeking to reach Europe.
According to HRW, the organization conducted interviews with over 20 migrants and asylum seekers since March, revealing a disturbing pattern of mistreatment.
In recent weeks, seven individuals were among the more than 1,000 black Africans who were expelled or forcibly relocated by Tunisian authorities to desert border regions with Libya and Algeria.
Tunisian President Kais Saied has accused the migrants of inciting violence and altering the country’s demographic composition.
In response, HRW is calling on the European Union to withhold funding intended for the repatriation of these migrants, citing concerns over the treatment they have endured.
Amnesty International has accused Cameroon’s security forces, separatists, and ethnic militias of perpetrating “rampant atrocities” in the country’s English-speaking core.
Amnesty International documents extensive human rights violations and other crimes in the North-West region, including executions, torture, and rape.
It says people have been caught in the crossfire as multiple fighters clash in the region, with individuals who speak out on the atrocities being threatened and arbitrarily detained.
The rights group has also expressed “deep concerns” over the failure by the authorities to co-operate effectively with international and regional human rights institutions.
It said repeated requests for fact-finding missions had remained unanswered.
“We call on Cameroonian authorities to investigate allegations of human rights violations and other crimes under domestic law committed in the context of the armed violence in the Anglophone regions, and to prosecute and punish those responsible for such violations in fair trials and before independent, impartial, and competent tribunals” said Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa.
Cameroon has been plagued by fighting since English-speaking separatists launched a rebellion in 2017.
The conflict has claimed more than 6,000 lives and forced more than a million people to flee their homes, according to the conflict research body the International Crisis Group.
Brothers of a married woman have beaten their brother-in-law for refusing to refrain from beating his wife.
Apparently, the wife is said to have cried about suffering domestic violence on numerous occasions and her brothers eventually became fed up with the never-ending reports of assault. They stormed her house to teach her husband an unforgettable lesson for constantly beating their sister.
In a trending video, the strong brothers undressed the woman beater, tied him to a tree and gave him about 200 lashes at his bare back.
The husband who had finally met his meter can be heard in the video pleading and begging for mercy but his brothers-in-law refused to listen to him and proceeded to give him heartwrenching strokesat his back.
Watch the video below to know more…
This man enjoys beating his wife at any given opportunity n has refused to put a stop to that upon several warnings. The day finally came for his wife’s brothers to teach him a good lesson!! ? pic.twitter.com/rrsrh9Rc9C— Fitila ??? (@Pirtim) April 26, 2023
Authorities in Uganda have shut down the boarding portion of a primary school in the central Mubende district after seven students claimed that the school’s caretaker had sexually assaulted them.
According to local media, the caregiver entered a guilty plea to the allegations last week in court and is awaiting sentencing.
Joyce Moriku Kaducu, the state’s minister of primary education, claimed on Sunday that the overcrowding in the classroom had created “fertile ground” for student abuse.
According to the Daily Monitor website, the school’s 350 boarders slept in five cramped rooms on triple-deck beds.
“I want you [school management] to tell the parents that you have been operating an illegal boarding section and no guidelines were being followed,” the minister said when she visited the school.
She also faulted local education officials for not inspecting schools.
Schools in Uganda require a government licence to operate boarding sections.
The German carrier, Lufthansa Airlines is accused of mistreating more than 200 customers traveling to Nigeria, and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has launched an investigation into the matter
According to local media, the airline threatened to contact the police last Friday when the customers, whose flight was delayed, asked for accommodations for their stay.
The flight from Frankfurt to Lagos, which was meant to arrive at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, was reportedly delayed after diverting to Cotonou in Benin, and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Lufthansa apologised for the flight delay in a circular sent to its passengers last Friday.
The passengers alleged the Lagos airport was not closed, contrary to the claim by the Lufthansa pilot.
Sam Adurogboye, the NCAA public affairs official, on Thursday said the regulator has begun investigation into the matter after receiving complaints from the passengers.
A spokesman for the airline has told the BBC that they are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
Katie Price has published a letter from the Met Police telling her officers are facing misconduct proceedings over alleged involvement in a WhatsApp group that targeted her disabled son Harvey.
The TV star and model called the alleged behaviour “disgusting”.
The letter, posted on her Instagram account, says the officers are accused of sharing “inappropriate and derogatory images” of her son.
The Met Police said it was “unable to discuss the allegations”.
The revelation of the letter by Price comes 18 months after she called for eight officers under investigation for allegedly sharing inappropriate material about Harvey on WhatsApp to be “named and shamed”. She added: “I don’t like the police being horrible to Harvey.”
In the letter she shared on Instagram earlier on Friday, an investigator from the Met’s professional standards department informs her that “a number of Metropolitan Police officers are alleged to have breached the standards of professional behaviour in regards to discreditable conduct”.
The letter adds that this related to “being part of a WhatsApp group chat that has posted inappropriate and derogatory images of your son, Harvey Price”.
Image caption, Katie Price said the officers facing allegations of misconduct needed to be “named, shamed and exposed”
The letter also states that the accused officers will be subject to a gross misconduct hearing in west London next week.
Price posted a comment on Instagram, alongside an image of the letter, which read: “It’s disgusting that police officers from here have felt the need to laugh and use disgusting content on Harvey by creating a WhatsApp group.
“I would attend this court day but I’m away. They need to be named, shamed and exposed.”
The Met declined to comment on the matter, but confirmed a hearing was due to commence on 21 February and is expected to last four days.
A notice on the Met’s website lists eight people who are facing misconduct allegations relating to their membership of a WhatsApp group between 2016 and 2018.
The notice adds that the alleged conduct, “if proven, amounts to gross misconduct and is so serious as to justify dismissal”.
Harvey, born in 2002, was diagnosed with septo-optic dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder affecting his eyesight, as well as autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, which can cause learning difficulties and behavioural problems.
Harvey was also targeted by comedian Frankie Boyle, whose routine on his Channel 4 show Tramadol Nights was found by Ofcom in 2011 to appear to “target and mock the mental and physical disabilities” of Price’s son, then aged eight.
An ex-teacher who is alleged to have mistreated students at boarding schools in Edinburgh has been detained in South Africa.
The 83-year-old — who can’t be named for legal reasons — attended a sexual offences office in Cape Town with his lawyer on Monday morning.
He is due to appear at the city’s Wynberg Magistrates Court later.
The man, known in a BBC documentary as “Edgar”, taught at Fettes College and Edinburgh Academy in the Scottish capital in the 1960s and 1970s.
The BBC presenter Nicky Campbell is one of several former pupils who have made allegations against “Edgar”, who is fighting extradition from South Africa to the UK.
“Edgar” admitted abusing young boys while teaching in Scotland, according to court documents seen by the BBC.
His legal team now insists that he denies the allegations.
He also denies molesting students after moving to South Africa to teach at a prestigious boys school in Cape Town.
The man is subject to an order at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry preventing his identification.
BBC presenter Nicky Campbell – who has been fighting for Edgar’s extradition to the UK – said he witnessed incidents of both sexual and physical abuse at the Edinburgh Academy which had a “profound effect” on his life.
Edgar is fighting the extradition on compassionate grounds arguing that he is old, unwell, and remorseful.
Qatar’s human rights record is under scrutiny as the World Cup takes place in Doha. A lot has been written about the treatment of migrant workers who built the stadiums and hotels, but much less about the foreign maids who work for Qatar’s ruling classes.
On paper, their rights have been strengthened in recent years – but the new rules aren’t always followed.
I make contact with Gladys (not her real name) late at night after her employers from the Qatari elite have gone to bed.
In a brief online conversation, she tells me she works from 8am to 11pm every day. She cleans, helps prepare food and looks after the children.
She eats what’s left from the family’s meals, and says she hasn’t had a day off since she started 18 months ago.
“Madam is crazy,” Gladys, a Filipina woman in her 40s, says about her employer. “She shouts at me every day.”
Before Qatar won the competition to host the 2022 World Cup, foreign workers were unable to change jobs or leave the country without their employer’s permission. It’s still like this in most Gulf states.
Under scrutiny, Qatar began to introduce reforms, but Amnesty International says these have failed to end a pattern of abuses faced by domestic workers.
For example, Gladys’s employer has held on to her passport, preventing her from leaving without his consent.
But Gladys still feels lucky. At least she has been allowed to keep her phone, she says, unlike some other foreign maids. Also, she is not physically abused. In Qatar, this happens all too often, she says.
There is another reason she wants to stay in her current job – she thinks it’s unlikely at her age that she will get a better one. She earns 1,500 rials a month (just under £350) and is able to send it all home to support her family.
Domestic workers’ rights
There are an estimated 160,000 foreign domestic workers in Qatar, according to 2021 data from Qatar’s Planning and Statistics Authority
In 2017 Qatar introduced the Domestic Workers Law, which limits working hours to 10 hours a day, and requires daily breaks, a weekly day off and paid holidays
In 2020 it also introduced a minimum wage and gave workers the right on paper to change jobs or leave the country without seeking permission
However, Amnesty International says these laws have not been properly implemented or enforced and extreme overwork, lack of rest, and abusive and degrading treatment continue
Joanna Concepcion of Migrante International, a grassroots organisation supporting Filipino overseas workers, says that many keep quiet about bad working conditions because earning money for their families is their overriding priority.
But when those in Gulf states do feel confident enough to talk freely, she says, they often mention serious abuse.
One woman said her employer would push her head into a toilet basin and deny her food and water when he was angry.
By contrast, a maid employed by the ruling royal Al Thani family, says she is treated well – but she has no day off, as all workers now should under the new rules.
Smiley and animated, Althea (not her real name) video calls the BBC from the basement of a royal residence. She explains that her employers have given her an iPhone, clothes, jewellery and shoes of a kind she couldn’t afford back home in the Philippines.
As in Gladys’s case, it’s the difficulty of earning a living wage at home that has brought her here.
As we speak, other Filipino domestic workers, who share a large room in Althea’s living quarters, say Hi and join the call.
They have their own bedrooms and a shared kitchen. This is important. The maids Althea sees on TikTok and Facebook begging for food, and pleading for someone to rescue them, are not as fortunate.
“I see those videos online all the time, which is why I feel so lucky,” she says. “For me, every day feels like a fairy tale.”
Nonetheless, it’s hard work in these “Cinderella palaces” as she refers to them, with their high ceilings and chandeliers, antiques inlaid with gold, mother-of-pearl table tops, and freshly cut flowers.
The day generally begins at 6:30am, when staff prepares breakfast for the family. Althea eats once the family has finished. After clearing away, they clean the rooms and set places for lunch.
“It is light work because there are many of us,” Althea says.
Maids rest in their flats between 3pm and 6pm, then prepare for dinner. Once dinner is over, Althea has finished work, and is free to leave the compound if she wants.
The royal family doesn’t hold on to her passport. But Althea does work every day, including weekends. She doesn’t get the day off that Qatari law is now supposed to guarantee. It’s a price she pays for providing her family with vital financial support.
Mary Grace Morales, a recruiter in Manila who pairs Filipino staff with VIPs in the Gulf, says working for the palace is an “enviable” job.
“The family is generous,” she says. And, in a comment reflecting the hardships the maids may have faced at home, she adds: “The girls get fatter while they are in the palace. The family feeds them well.”
Mary Grace Morales: The palace wants “very pretty” staff no older than 35
But the royals have some very specific requirements, she reveals.
“The girls sent to work for the Qatari royal family are between 24 and 35 and very pretty,” Ms Morales says.
She pauses to look at the screen where I stare back at her from the BBC headquarters in London.
“Prettier than you,” she says, smiling.
She later sends a WhatsApp to apologise, as her children overheard and said she had been rude. I assure her I was not offended – and don’t mention that hiring people on the basis of their looks would be illegal in many countries.
Joanna Concepcion, of Migrante International, says she hopes Althea’s account of working as a royal maid is true but adds: “It’s unlikely that we can know that for certain while she is still in Qatar and working for such a powerful family.”
Some royal staff have complained after leaving the country. In 2019 three British and American workers – a bodyguard, personal trainer and private tutor – sued the emir’s sister, Sheikha al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and her husband, in New York, alleging that they had been made to work long hours without overtime.
The couple denied the allegations and settled without any admission of liability.
“Reporting and addressing cases of violence and harassment, lack of occupational safety and health, and lack of decent accommodation can be challenging,” says International Labour Organization (ILO) regional director for Arab states, Ruba Jaradat.
The ILO says it is working with Qatar to implement the new rules guaranteeing a minimum wage, a day off each week, sick leave and overtime payments, although this remains “a challenge”.
Althea, in her royal palace, says she is happy despite the long hours.
When she goes to bed she will message one of her siblings or parents in the Philippines. She often feels homesick – a fairytale palace is not home.
However, it remains a crucial source of income.
“I could never support my family without this job,” she says.
The BBC asked the Qatari royal family and the Qatari embassy in London to comment but received no reply.
After YNW Melly detailed the alleged abuse he’s faced at Broward CountyJail, the rapper’s mother has called for an investigation into his claims.
Speaking with TMZ, Melly’s mother, Jamie Demons-King, said the jail “definitely needs to be investigated,” and the people in charge have been “making up their own rules” in regards to the treatment of inmates.
“We’ve tried to go to court about this situation, [but] the judge doesn’t really have any jurisdiction when it comes to the jail,” she told TMZ. “We actually had a hearing about the mistreatment of him, and the jail kind of… they make their own rules and I don’t think that’s fair because I know that they need to answer to someone too.”
In a series of posts shared on his Instagram account on Monday, the “Murder On My Mind” rapper said that he fears for his life in the Fort Lauderdale jail. He alleged that he is being surveilled 24/7 and is being held in isolation, without any access to a phone, television, or even a newspaper. Melly accused two employees of the Broward Sheriff’s Office of targeting him with threats, and said he believes they could beat him “half to death like they do to other inmates almost daily.”
His mother stressed that Melly has “not been convicted of anything” yet, but even inmates who have been convicted “have the right to use a telephone” during their time behind bars. “They hold his mail, they don’t give it to him,” she continued. “It’s just not right. … It’s Christmas, and Christmas day is my birthday too, [and] I just want to hear my son’s voice. That’s like the bare minimum, I just want to hear his voice. I just want to hear that he’s okay.”She described his recent posts as “heartbreaking,” and said they made her feel “completely helpless.”
YNW Melly is currently behind bars awaiting trial on two charges of premeditated first-degree murder. Florida’s District Court of Appeal overruled Judge Andrew Siegel’s decision to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in his case last month.
Melly and his close collaborator Cortlen “YNW Bortlen” Henry were arrested and charged in 2019 with two counts of first-degree murder each. They have been accused of fatally shooting 20-year-old Christopher “YNW Juvy” Thomas Jr. and 21-year-old Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams in October 2018, and then staging the scene to look like a drive-by shooting.
A Nigerian woman has bailed her ‘abusive’ husband out of jail after he was arrested and detained for brutally beating her.
A group, DPA Family Law Clinic, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Thursday, November 24.
“We got her husband arrested and detained for beating her and doing this to her. His kinsmen refused to come to bail him out. They said he should die there. Guess who went behind us to bail him out? This is how the woman’s sister narrated it to us:
“My sister paid 10k to bail the husband because his people refused to come. She said that even if they take man to court that he will still end up in prison and she can’t bear it. She had been the one paying all bills including rent because he’s not working.”
In court papers, Angelina Jolie accuses her ex-husband Brad Pitt of beating her and their children while intoxicated while travelling on a private jet, which prompted her to file for divorce.
In a lawsuit over a French winery that the stars bought, Ms Jolie says Mr Pitt grabbed her by the head and attacked two of their children on the 2016 trip.
Mr Pitt also verbally abused and poured alcohol on his family during the flight from France to Los Angeles, she says.
He denies the allegations.
A source close to the actor told the BBC that Ms Jolie’s claims were false.
“She continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an event that happened six years ago by adding completely untrue information each time she fails to get what she wants,” said the source. “Her story is constantly evolving.”
Ms Jolie’s claim of abusive behaviour by Mr Pitt on the 14 September 2016 flight have emerged in previous court papers, including the Oscar-winning former couple’s divorce settlement.
But new details were alleged in Tuesday’s filing in Los Angeles by Ms Jolie’s legal team. It is part of an ongoing lawsuit over Chateau Miraval SA, a home and vineyard in the south of France that the former Hollywood couple acquired together.
Mr Pitt argues that he and his former wife had agreed not to sell their stakes in the venue without the permission of the other.
Ms Jolie disputes this, and blames Mr Pitt for ending negotiationsover purchasing her shares of the property.
Her cross-complaint on Tuesday says the actor was physically and emotionally abusive towards her and their six children – aged 8 to 15 at the time – during the private plane flight.
Her lawyers allege the Fight Club star began shouting, accusing her of being “too deferential to the children”.
Shortly into the flight, Mr Pitt “pulled her into the bathroom” in the back of the plane, says the lawsuit.
“Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall,” the filing adds.
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Miraval is known for its rosé wine
“Pitt then punched the ceiling of the plane numerous times, prompting Jolie to leave the bathroom.”
After one child verbally intervened, Mr Pitt “lunged at his own child”, says the filing.
Ms Jolie then “grabbed him from behind to stop him”, according to the court papers.
“To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backward into the airplane’s seats injuring Jolie’s back and elbow,” the legal filing continues.
“The children rushed in and all bravely tried to protect each other. Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face.”
Ms Jolie’s lawyers say she and her children “sat still and silent under blankets” for the remainder of the flight.
IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, The French estate, seen in 2008
“Pitt periodically emerged from the back of the plane to yell and swear at them. At one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and red wine on the children,” says the filing.
The incident was investigated by the FBI in 2016. Authorities decided not to press charges.
Last year, a judge awarded joint custody of the children to both parents.
The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in south-eastern Franceand was bought by the couple for around €25m (£21.3m; $25m) in 2008.
The stars got married there six years later.
Mr Pitt has sued Ms Jolie, claiming that her decision to sell her stake in the estate to a Russian oligarch amounted to an attempt to “undermine” his investment and cause “gratuitous harm” to Mr Pitt, who had “poured money and sweat equity into the wine business”.
Ms Jolie’s lawyers say in their filing that the actress “has gone to great lengths to try to shield their children from reliving the pain Pitt inflicted on the family that day”.
They add that her decision to sell her stake in the venture was in part due to her “growing increasingly uncomfortable with continuing to participate in an alcohol-related business, given the impact of Pitt’s acknowledged problem of alcohol abuse on their family”. Mr Pitt told the New York Times in 2019 that he had joined Alcoholics Anonymous following his split from Ms Jolie.
Ms Jolie’s court filing lays bare the tension between the couple over their plans for the winery.
Mr Pitt, who has previously spoken of his love for architecture and design, decided the chateau needed the fifth pool at a cost of €1m and wanted a staircase to be rebuilt four times, according to Ms Jolie.
An American missionary accused of sexually abusing girls at an orphanage he ran in western Kenya has pleaded guilty to the charges in a US court, local media in Philadelphia report.
Gregory Dow is likely to serve up to 16 years in prison, according to the Lancaster Online.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places during a teleconference on Monday with US District Judge Edward Smith and federal prosecutors.
He ran the orphanage in Bomet county, 263km (163 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, with his wife Mary Dow.
He committed the crimes between October 2013 and September 2014.
Mr Dow fled Kenya in September 2017 to avoid prosecution after police were tipped of the abuses.
Gregory Dow, 61, has pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually abused several minor girls in Kenya, where he started an orphanage.https://t.co/IeJbGlYgM7
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Fifty-five-year old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for physically abusing his 10 year old son.
On May 17, 2020, at 10 am the police received a report from the mother of the child that the day before, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with, cut off part of the right ear of her son with a blade and also placed his fingers in an open fire after suspecting him of stealing ¢250.00.
The incident occurred at at Obuom-Domeabra.
The victim who was going through severe pains at the time of the report and with marks of assault all over his body was sent to the Amanfro Poly Clinic where he was treated and discharged.
He has been handed over to his mother as investigations and further prosecution continues.
The suspect Mumuni Osmanu who is in police custody confessed to the crime but claimed the victim is disobedient.
The police have advised parents, guardians and child care givers not to mete out violence on their children for wrongdoings, especially now that they are at home, “as the harm that is usually caused leaves lasting effects on them; physically, psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and a wide range of effects and these effects can be very devastating.â€
Meanwhile, Osmanu is being processed for court for the law to take its course.
