Child maltreatment remains a sad reality in our societies. Many of these children are orphaned by their father or mother, who are mistreated by their guardians at a point where they prefer to flee the home to an unknown destination.
This is the case of the little Esther, a 15 year old girl who lives with her parents and her stepmother after the death of her real mother in a neighborhood of Lomé.
According to Brother Gapola, the girl is subjected to cruel treatment by her stepmother, her thirties. In the absence of schooling, she found a small job, that of helping the owner of a cafeteria close to her home.
At home, it is always with knives drawn with his stepmother under the impotent gaze of his father who, according to the overlaps, is calm by nature.
Both, like "dog and cat", spend their day arguing to the point of alerting neighbors and roommates. They sometimes come to the hands, according to the testimonies.
A few days ago, Gapola said, the girl had left the house without permission. On her return, she was copiously molested by her father despite the intervention of neighbors. Following this incident, Esther would have left the house for an unknown destination.
Unfortunately, she is now alone facing her destiny.
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