See Why Nigerian Mum Based In The US Lost Children’s Custody To Government

A US-based Nigerian victim of domestic abuse has lost custody of her children after her daughter reported that she hit her to the cops.

Sharing her plight via Humans of New York Instagram page, the single mum cried out for help, saying the US Government is ‘oppressing’ her as the latter has refused to hand over her children.

She wrote:

”I was pregnant the first time he hit me. I found another woman in his house. And when I asked who she was, he got violent. He told me: ‘You are not my mother. You have no right to ask me about this.’ Then he hit me. And there was nothing I could do.

That sort of behavior is accepted in Nigeria. Nobody is going to call it ‘domestic violence.’ If you tell the police, they will tell you to listen to your husband. But things are different in America.

So I left my husband six months after we arrived. I entered a domestic violence shelter. I became a single mother. And I was doing fine. I was working as a security guard and my children were not suffering. But then one day my daughter called the police and told them that I hit her.

But that is my right. A mother has the right to discipline her children. They were disobeying me. But the government took my children away and now they won’t give them back. They are oppressing me with their power.”

This information was forwarded to us by a member of civil society who appealed to MIM fans. She wrote…

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“I’m a fan of Humans of New York and I saw this post some minutes ago and I was touched. I only wanted to appeal to MISM fans living in the US especially the attorneys/lawyer to help our dear sister. Anyone willing to help can contact Humans of New York on [email protected]
Even if you leave outside US and you can help please do.”

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