Paynesville City — Samuel Siafa, 10, and Jackson Davis, 9, left the respective homes to avoid being ‘abused’ by their step-mothers. They are currently in the custody of the police who found them wandering around.
The head of the Women and Children Division at the Zone 8 police depot, Inspector James Tokpah, told FrontPageAfrica that the children have been in Police custody for the past two weeks.
According to Inspector Tokpah, the children were found in the Clar Duncan Weah’s Market in Rehab Community by a passerby who brought the kids to the Depot.
Inspector Tokpah further said that they have tried to contact their parents, however, the parents have shown interests in reclaiming custody of the children.
Inspector Tokpah further said that there have been no relative of Jackson Davis who came from the PHP Community in central Monrovia that has contacted the police to report his absence from the house.
“We contact Siafa’s father but refused to show any interest in the kid so, we want him to just come and take the child to biological mother to live,” Inspector Tokpah said.
“But Davis’ case is different, because we contacted central office but they have not found any family member of the child.”
“We are still trying but the children are being fed three times daily for the past two weeks, Inspector “Tokpah revealed.
In an interview with little Siafa, he said that he lived with both his father (Moses Siafa) and step-mother (Oretha) but his step-mother constantly beats him.
Siafa who said his father is currently working in Margibi County, explained that his step-mother has being abusive toward him in the absence of his father.
“I can tell my pa (father) that my step-mother can be beating me, but he can tell me to forget about it,” Little Siafa said.
Little Siafa said he left the house because his step-mother’s son threw the soap away in a bush and they could not locate the area.
He further said that his step-mother threatened to beat him if the soap was not brought back and it was at the point he decided ask one of his friends for L$10.00 to buy soap.
Little Siafa said that his step-mother locked him up in the room but he escaped through the zinc and slept in the market where he was taken to the station by a lady that he described as aunty.
“She said, I am the one who threw the iron soap away but I said it was not me. Then she said if I don’t find or buy it, she’ll beat me in the night,” he said.
Nine-year-old Jackson Davis explained that his step-mother who also goes by the name Oretha has been tough in dealing with him.
The kid revealed that she had made him a domestic tool, using him to fetch water and do other domestic works without spending to school, though she had promised his uncle who brought him to Monrovia that she was going to spend to school.
Little Davis said the abuse became constant from his father girlfriend causing to leave their home in PHP Community to Rehab Community.
When asked if he was going to school while living with his uncle, Little Davis said his uncle took him from his biological parents in Bong County with the sole purpose of sending him to school.
Little Davis said since his uncle brought him to Monrovia, he has never been to school.
“My uncle was moving across, so my step-mother came for me to live with her in PHP community so I can go to school but she did not even put me in school.”
“I will be working like slave and she will beat me each time I don’t do my work,” he said.
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