A twitter user has shared a sad story of a 10 year old child who is currently fighting for her life because her parents decided to bleach her skin from a tender age.
According to the microblog user simply identified as @Tejumola, the child is currently battling with kidney disease caused by the bleaching products used on her.
There is a lot of craze about being light-skinned in Nigeria as well. The general belief is that light-skinned people are more attractive, especially the women. As a result, some mothers are prepping their children from as young as age two, regardless whether they are male or female, “to have glowing light skin” by ensuring their daily body lotions contain the agents to achieve this.
@Tejumola further revealed that the said child's parents are both dark skinned but prefer their daughter lighter.
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