{"id":62484,"date":"2021-07-26T06:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=62484"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T07:52:08","slug":"physically-challenged-girl-threatens-suicide-after-parents-clerics-allegedly-call-her-demon-possessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/26\/physically-challenged-girl-threatens-suicide-after-parents-clerics-allegedly-call-her-demon-possessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Physically challenged girl threatens suicide after parents, clerics allegedly call her demon-possessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23-year-old physically challenged girl, Florence Umukoro, has threatened to commit suicide after accusing her parents of maltreating her since she became deaf and dumb in the Ajah area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that after Florence\u2019s condition was discovered in 2011, instead of seeking medical intervention to improve her condition, her parents stopped sponsoring her education and took her to different churches for deliverance.<\/p>\n<p>According to PUNCH, she alleged that her parents and pastors said she was demon-possessed.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta State indigene disclosed this to PUNCH through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI have been hoping my life will change for the better, but things keep getting worse as time goes by. My family and relatives have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/super-tv-ceo-chidinma-disowned-her-family-and-changed-her-name-sister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disowned<\/a> me; nobody cares about me. My parents have been helping my siblings with their schooling, but they left me out of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been labelled possessed by a demon and it is breaking my heart. On April 27, 2021, my younger sister said I should prepare for a church programme that I would be attending with our mother, Mary, but I declined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, my parents and older brother, Emmanuel, forcefully dragged me to a blue garment church owned by a prophetess. The prophetess told them to chain my hands and legs to prevent me from leaving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, they had their driver shave me and ordered my mother to bathe me. I pleaded for compassion and respect for my privacy, all to no avail. The prophetess stood behind me with a stick and threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/adamawa-man-arrested-for-allegedly-beating-wife-to-death-over-n1000-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beat<\/a> me up if I revolted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother complied with her call to strip me naked. I felt so wounded in my spirit as they striped me off my dignity. I got reduced to an animal as I was kept in chains from Wednesday, April 28, to Saturday, May 1, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florence stated that her efforts to get help proved abortive, adding that she was feeling suicidal because of \u201cneglect and the inhumane conditions\u201d her parents and pastors subjected her to.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThey violated my rights and also spied on my life, thus making me feel like a symbol of evil; I\u2019m heartbroken. I can\u2019t go on this way anymore. I will do whatever it takes to free myself, even if it means committing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/22\/15-year-old-girl-commits-suicide-over-poor-exam-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suicide<\/a> to end my pains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese seemingly unending years of religious and domestic persecution must end. Everything started when pastors told them that my hearing loss was spiritual. A relative, including other clerics, also said I was demonised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI opened up about my hearing issue in 2011 and they often beat and forcefully dragged me to deliverance programmes. They (parents) send my siblings to high school and university, but I am always sitting at home, doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am telling others about my problem because I can\u2019t cope with the stigma any more. I\u2019m slowly getting out of the public eye as the humiliation and trauma is becoming unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I need is for someone to help me get treatment for my health so that I can find a job and leave this situation behind, rather than getting left behind while my siblings move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Florence\u2019s father, John, said his daughter was under a spiritual attack.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIf she says I am not taking care of her, maybe that is how she takes it. Actually, I am caring for her, but this thing is spiritual because she was not given birth to with that condition. It came suddenly and I believe it is a spiritual problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer mother took her to the General Hospital on the Island and they prescribed different drugs for her to be taking and after she finished taking the drugs, she should return for further examination. But when we got home, she threw away the medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer behaviour became unbearable and I knew that it was not ordinary, so we resorted to spiritual prayers. We have been seeking spiritual help for over eight years. Anytime we seek help, she will run away. Immediately she sees a man of God, she will run away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said she is experiencing spiritual attack, and not that she is a demon. But when she threw away her medicine, do you expect me to take her back to the same hospital? Hearing aid is what I am trying to get for her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23-year-old physically challenged girl, Florence Umukoro, has threatened to commit suicide after accusing her parents of maltreating her since she became deaf and dumb in the Ajah area of Lagos State. 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