The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said they are seriously “tracking” persons who uploaded improper pictures of a girl suspected to be five years old on the social media.
This was against the backdrop of an outcry from social media users that drew the attention of the agency to the photos.
Among the images was a flyer declaring a “Birthday party” for the minor on May 28, at Spring Leaders Montessori School in Auchi, Edo State.
Recall that an X social account user, by the name Miss Ezeani, called NAPTIP’s attention to photos shared on the Instagram accounts @officialsarah_ig and @black_sherriff_justice.
She wrote: “This is a call for help! I just went through this baby’s Instagram page and I am beyond shattered. I don’t know where to begin.
“The men that have her are most definitely promoting her for sex. This baby is nothing more than five years, yet there’re many pictures of her in adult places; pictures of her in thongs, pictures of her in hotels, pictures of her in suggestive positions.
“Please, anyone with the right enforcement to get these men, tags anything. This is beyond ‘reporting their pages,’ that baby is in danger! Whatever is happening to that child is happening offline and so it’s not enough to just report the page. Please retweet, tags, get this absurdity in front of the right authorities.”
NAPTIP replied on it’s X account, “Thank you all for bringing this obscenity to our attention.
“This is Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) which is a crime! We are working on contacting Meta to bring down the accounts while we track the offenders.
“We are appealing to the public to desist from further sharing improper pictures of this child; you are adding to the problem by aiding the distribution of CSAM which is also a crime! Thank you all.”
