Child chained up in Nigerian church for weeks as punishment for stealing food

‘A nine-year-old boy was rescued from a church by police in the Nigerian state of Ogun after the child had been chained up for weeks as punishment for allegedly stealing, police said.
Police and members of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) found the boy at the Celestial Church of Christ in Ajibawo after receiving a tip-off from a concerned neighbor.
The child had been chained by the neck to a large log of wood in a room for weeks, police told the Premium Times.’

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