This looks like the "baby witch"one year after his rescue

A year ago was full of worms, lived in the streets of Nigeria and survived the waste of passers-by. He had to undergo daily transfusions of blood to keep him alive and then to an operation on his urethra because he had a birth defect. The child was abandoned by his family, who accused him of being a witch, said Anja Ringgren Loven, the social worker who rescued him. "On January 30, 2016, I went on a rescue mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigeria team. A rescue mission that became viral, and today, exactly a year ago, the world met a boy named Hope, this week the school will start, "Loven wrote on her Facebook page last Monday. Loven is the founder of African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation, which she created to rescue children who are called sorcerers by the community. In the state of Akwa Ibom, where they found Hope, it is a crime to cross out a witch-child, but the practice persists. The belief in witchcraft grows around the world. In 2009, around 1,000 people accused of being witches in The Gambia were locked up in detention centers in March and forced to take a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, Amnesty International said. In 2010, CNN reported on the plight of children in Nigeria who are subjected to exorcisms and sometimes killed by their own family. Hope, now three, lives happily with other children, including Loven's son, David Jr.

• 2017-02-09T00:43:06+00:00
• Duration: 03:50

• BebéBrujo
• Nigeria
• Niño
• NiñoAbandonado
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• Noticias
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