Disability Based Violence: How A DSS Pervert Ran Amok In A Boarding School (pic)

Demola Adeleke, a UK based, visually impaired Nigerian and an Ambassador of the World Literacy Foundation narrates this harrowing tale of disability based violence. The setting of the grim events is a boarding school for disabled girls in the Northern part of Nigeria.A blind lady our NGO is sponsoring through school once told us how, in the dead of the night, an unknown man would break into their school hostel and mercilessly squeeze the breasts of all the blind girls around, after which he'd then escape into the night.This news only intensified my reservations about the school. For starters, I personally do not like the setup. It's a special school in Northern Nigeria where students with all sort of sensory impairments were, and are still kept together in one place.Deaf and blind students are made to live in the same hostel, share the same room even, and you can imagine how almost impossible communication within the groups would be. With no other choice, however, especially as the 26-year-old lady in question lives in the North with her mum and was unwilling to travel to Lagos for her training, we decided to let her remain in the school and support her from there.Then came the news of the breast squeezer shortly after her enrollment. All the members of my team were afraid for her. We were even more disturbed to learn that the school was trivialising the nightly assault of the girls and wouldn't take any precautionary actions to stop it.Our beneficiary, resigning to Fate and believing there was no way she could escaped from having her breast fondled by the lunatic, then resorted to going to bed fully clothed. To her, at least the unknown man, when out on his nightly parade, will only squeeze her breast from within her clothes and not have the pleasure of doing it skin to skin.It was later that we learnt the deaf girls were not left out in this. The psychotic breast squeezer, ever the cunning one, would finish his rounds with the blind girls first before moving on to the deaf girls. 'Cunning' because while working on the blind girls' breasts and they were screaming explitives at him, the deaf girls who were supposedly within earshorts unfortunately could not hear anything. So, still very much unsuspecting, the deaf girls' breasts would be next to get squeezed and sometimes sucked.https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Gf1NyyNGen8uymQ2epkGbkzwD6YiBqusHcNboz2zT3yeHm6WtBeMBq3JN77c9h26l&id=100001640320827&sfnsn=scwspwa&mibextid=RUbZ1f&paipv=0&eav=AfaIvNkCXjJRN1_PXlLLN4WAXtP_mSJwjY3htBOQLZWOtM6OusrLHRjHOGZSILQmeNM&_rdr