I wish we have functional child protection services in Nigeria. Your neighbour should be reported to such people. I hate people who maltreat children in their care just because they can get away with it. If you report to the police, you may even get arrested for your effort! What should we do in such circumstances? You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. We need a system that works. This maltreatment is still an issue that not many people are interested in. We talk about modern-day slavery, and right under our noses, people are practising it. We see it in underage children hawking goods in traffic when they should be in school, the neighbours that turns the help into a boxing bag, the nanny that is left the crumbs to eat and treated as a second-class citizen in the house with the oga's (the boss) children going to school while she's left at home cleaning the house and washing oga's vehicle, etc.