A petition has been filed at the United States of America (USA) Department of Homeland Security seeking the deportation of a Nigerian ‘professional physiotherapist’, Anthonia Bisola Abayomi-Ojo who was caught on camera manhandling a child suffering from cerebral palsy in Lagos on June 2016.

During the abuse that lasted about an hour, she ignored the suffering child that was put under her ‘special care’ to take selfies with her phone.

Although the incident happened in Nigeria last year, Bisola left the country for the United States after receiving the Mandela Award to further her studies in Physiotherapy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

But before Bisola left for the US, she was arrested by the men of the Nigeria Police Force and sanctioned by the board for Physical Therapists in Nigeria. However, she did not completeher sanction.

The child’s father reportedly said ‘he could never understand the motivation for her actions seeing she was well paid.’

He added that Bisola was ‘highly recommended and they had no reason to doubt her competence until they saw the shocking video.’

The ongoing petition against Bisola seeks a rescinding of the Mandela Scholarship Award and her US visa.