Deeper Life School Student, Don Davis, Further Shares Horrific Details Of How He Was Brutally Assaulted And Molested By Staff And Students Of The School (Video)
Eleven-year-old student of the Deeper Life High School, Akwa Ibom, Don Davis Archibong, has shared sad details of how he was assaulted and molested by staff and senior students of the school within the space of two months.
The teenager narrated how two pupils in his dormitory sexually assaulted him by putting their hands in his anus whenever others were sleeping.
In the video moderated by his mother, Don Davis added that the two bullies whom he simply identified as Ola and Shalom, threatened to kill him if he ever reported the incident to the school authorities.
“When I just resumed in school, I was asked to go to Senior Secondary School 1 Dormitory. There were two boys there, Ola and Shalom; they put their hands in my anus, brought out faeces from there.
It made me feel somehow and they used the hands to beat me. They ask me to bend (over) so they could put their hands in my anus. They did it by 12am when everybody was sleeping. For two weeks I did not have my bath.
They told me not to tell anybody or they would kill me so I never reported it. The house master didn’t know they did this; he would be asleep. If I had told the vice principal, they would have killed me.”
The JSS 1 pupil stated this in a 45-minutes live Facebook session on Saturday, explaining that because he was a bed-wetter, he was allegedly assaulted by one of his teachers, whom he identified as Akpan, saying he beat him with a belt, stick and stones.
”When I got to Deeper Life school, because I bed-wet, Mr Akpan uses belt on me. He uses any thing he sees, even if it is iron, belt, or he can even use stone. Because I bed-wet, they transferred me from JS1 dormitory to SS1 dormitory.
One day that Mr Akpan was beating me, Mr Michael came to ‘bail me’. Mr Michael asked me if Akpan wanted to kill me. Mr Akpan said he didn’t care.”
Archibong added that the same Akpan would send him back to the hostel whenever it was time to eat so that he would starve. He added that he relied on biscuits and soft drinks from the shop at the hostel to satisfy his hunger at that moment.
“Mr Akpan sends me to go back to the hostel to get something. It’s a way of starving me,” he added.
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Archibong’s mother, Deborah Okezie, had gone public to announce that her child was allegedly assaulted and molested in the school and that even after the school authorities received complaints about it, nothing was done about it.
There have been calls for proper investigation and justice by Nigerians, particularly on social media. The management of the school in December announced the suspension of the principal of the school, Solomon Ndidi, over the alleged molestation of Archibong, adding that investigation into the incident had commenced.
Watch the video below: