Nigerian Parents Leave 9-Year-Old Twins Home Alone in the US to Travel to Nigeria
9-year-old twin boys were left mostly alone in their New Hampshire apartment for four months after their parents took three siblings to Nigeria and left an uncle to care for them, dailymail reports.
Manchester police said the uncle, 25-year-old Giobari Atura, told them he would stop by every couple of days to drop off food, but when police got involved in November, they found no edible food in the refrigerator and only ramen noodles in a cabinet.
Atura was charged in December with one count of endangering the welfare of a child and was freed on $500 bail.
Atura’s older brother, Jerusalem Monday, left for Nigeria with his wife and three of their children in July, intending to return in August. They told police they were delayed by illness and passport problems.
A neighbor, Christaly Garcia, said she didn’t recall seeing the boys but noted they wouldn’t necessarily stand out because there are a lot of kids in the well-kept apartment complex in New Hampshire’s largest city.
The case came to light in November when officials at the boys’ school told the state Division of Children, Youth and Families that the twins had been living on their own for months. The kids were getting themselves up and on the bus, then eating breakfast and lunch at school.
The boys were taken into protective custody and then placed into foster care. It wasn’t immediately clear whether they were still in foster care, whether the parents had returned from Nigeria or whether they could face charges.
In a police affidavit, Atura said he’d stop by the apartment on days that he went to work, but that didn’t happen every day. He said he checked on the boys three days a week and told them to call him if they needed anything.
“It should be noted that no operable phone was located within the apartment,” the affidavit says.
In an interview with police, one of the boys said “he felt lonely while staying at their own house because his mom and dad were not there and nobody was with them,” according to the affidavit.
When police finally reached the parents, they said they had instructed Atura to stay at the apartment, and if he couldn’t, they gave him the name of a family friend to contact. The parents said they stayed in phone contact with Atura, who assured them everything was fine.
His phone number isn’t listed, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Source: DailyMail
Why do some parents neglect their kids so much? What if something would have happened to them? Why didn’t they just take of all them along to Nigeria? Hmmmmm
Some parent just don’t care, they shuld be charged 4 neglecting their own kids. Thank God 4 oyinbo police, 4 niaja here who care whethere they eat or not. It is well.
Hmmm that’s pure neglect.if they are lucky to escape jail term, I hope they will b lucky to get their kids back.maybe they forgot that was in d states& not Nigeria
That was just too careless
Nawah oo dey get mind like seriously re de 4real?
They could have made proper arrangements for their up keep.
Not nice at all. This us just d reason why I think everyone should think properly b4 making children. If its one u can really take care of and be there 4 him/her just get one.
Why will dey do a thing like dat.. OmG
They really get mind especially the woman. Why didn’t the uncle live with the boys nd go to.work from there or the boys to the uncle and go to school from there. Too bad, they have lost he kids to the govt
Oooh,They should have known that a 25years old uncle wount be capable of handling such…ThankGod nothing happened to those precious gifts
Craziness in parenthood.
How could they?
This story made me so mad, the parents are irresponsible and unfit. How dare they leave those children alone.
Why didn’t the boys travel with them??? They get mind sha
Plz fellow mamas lets nt crucify these parents i knw they bhaved wrongly,rememba dey alredy travld wit three kids mayb dey didnt hv enuf money to foot d bill for evryone nd to hv left d kids in care of their uncle am sure he assured nd gv dem d confidence dt made dem belive he culd do d job.
Who is to blame in a situation like this?
But what sort of parents are they.maybe too much luxry is affecting them.
Not normal at all.I smell a rat.
Hmmmmm
Negligence
Na wa 4 d parents
Too bad,sum parents tho*
Some parent sef na wa for them
Neglect at its highest. :hhhhh
Hmmmm
The height of irresponsibility
Hmmm they would have put them under childscare since they were going to stay for a long time
some parents sha, how come?
it is well o
so who to blame? the stupid mother or the foolish father? or or the idiotic uncle
They would’ve left them in the hands of a family known to them; leaving them on their own is not proper.
This isn’t a case of abandonment by it’s a case of negligence on the part of the uncle.If you have agreed to come and stay in the house with the kids until their parents get back, why in God’s name will you not stick with that? A 25 year old is no child.
What were they thinking?
They didn’t do well @all. Carelessness