She was fooled by her daughter

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.”

–Sue Atkins

I read another story online yesterday concerning this issue of the 10yrs old girl that has gone viral and how most people were blaming the parents. Yes, we can blame them in some ways but let's not put the whole blame on them because there are some things parents do not know their children are capable of doing and when they see it, they are shocked. It means they have been fooled and deceived by their children.

I would also agree with what Olasquare wrote some days ago by cutting some slacks off these children and focusing on those little things that they think do not matter but they do matter. You can read his post here if you haven't (It's with those little things)

He narrated when he was very young and how his parents imposed their going out and the time they should be back home. Of course, these are the responsibilities of every parent to monitor their kids especially with those little things they do that they feel can't escalate into something else.

This story was about a woman that was fooled by her daughter and this would open your eyes in another angle to know these children can be so smart to make a move against their parents with them not knowing. She said she felt for the girl's mother and if she could meet her, she would tell her to learn from her and she was of the opinion that the girl's mother should seek help for her daughter immediately because her daughter isn't an innocent girl as she thought.

The woman had a girl she had been taking care of, her niece precisely. Her mother died when she was six years old and she has been the one taking care of her. This girl attended Model's college in Lagos and it's a boarding school. According to her, she and her son took this girl to school on Sunday since school would be resuming on Monday. The school insisted they put on their school house wear while coming and she made sure the girl wore it and she was even the one who helped to pack her bags. She was in SS1 and when they got to school, the boy followed her to her hostel to drop her bag while she went to pay some money at the bursar's office where she met other parents who were settling their payments.

It was already 6:30pm at that time and she couldn't see the girl again but she told her son to go tell her they were already leaving and would come see her in some week's time.

They went back home that Sunday and she thought she had done her duty as a mother and her daughter was already in her hostel. Three days later, which was on Wednesday, the house mistress called to inform her that they hadn't seen the girl in school. That was when she flared up and was confused. She explained she was the one who brought her to school on Sunday. Why are you saying she hasn't resumed? The house mistress said though her bed has always been laid but they haven't seen her physically.

Who could have been laying her bed? What is happening? Those questions were in her head while she went back to the school.

They called her friends and they confessed that the girl met a guy on Facebook who told her to come to meet him at one hotel and she disguised herself as one of the cleaners and went there on Sunday. She said she was the one who packed her bags and how she was able to put some mufti clothes in her bag, she didn't understand.

That was when the search began. They went to the police station and started searching from hotel to hotel and couldn't find her.

What baffles the woman was how she got a phone. She said the phone she bought for her, she refused it that it cannot browse. So how did she end up owing a phone?

When they couldn't keep searching, she went back home. It was on Friday at 5:30pm, she was found at the school gate naked. They raped and used her. After confirming she was a student of the school, she fainted and her mother took her to the hospital. When she recovered after some days, she begged her mother that she won't deceive her again, that she already learned her lesson. The girl was suspended from school.

The woman said no one taught her, she learned her lesson herself after going through pains. She couldn't pee nor do anything. In fact after a year of not going back to school, she was ashamed because her mates were already ahead of her. Now, the girl is the one preaching and talking to young girls about her experience. Experience taught her a good lesson from that day onward.

I could understand the story and I would say some children can deceive their parents and make them look like a fool. Though parents won't stop doing their duty, and taking note of those little things, remember only God can take over their lives.

The woman said her daughter was so innocent and hardly would accept going on deliveries for her but she didn't know her daughter was another person.

I hope the 10yrs old girl's mother will act fast and seek help from a psychologist before it is too late because this girl's issue has turned into something else and I pray she does not die but learns through hard ways. May God continue to protect these children and help the parents too. Amen

Thanks for reading

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