- Police in Lagos have arrested a 36-year-old woman for reportedly inflicting injuries on her maid with pressing iron and hot water
- It was reported that the woman tried to hide the crime by dressing up the maid to cover the wounds
- Lagos state police spokesman, Chike Oti, said she will be charged to court on Monday, March 12
The Lagos police command said it has arrested a 36-year-old woman for allegedly using hot pressing iron and hot water to inflict injuries on her maid, one Chioma Samuel.
Spokesman of the command, Chike Oti, told newsmen on Sunday, March 11 in Lagos that the woman sought to hide the crime by dressing up the maid to cover the wounds, NAN reports.
NAIJ.com noted that Oti described the incident as another case of man’s inhumanity to man, adding that the girl was assaulted on Wednesday 7 at 47, Ogundana Street, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.
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He said the girl was mentally and physically abused by the suspect by using hot pressing iron to cause grievous injury on the victim’s hands and legs.
According to the police spokesman, the suspect also poured hot water on the maid which scalded her skin.
The spokesman said: “On Thursday March 8, the woman’s crime against the girl was exposed when she brought her children to a private school located somewhere in Ikeja alongside the maid.
“Unfortunately for her, the prying eyes of other mothers who came to the same school to drop off their kids, noticed the gaping wounds on the upper and lower limbs of the victim who accompanied the suspect to the school.
“After questioning the girl, they waited for her Madam who had gone to drop her kids in their different classrooms. When she finished and was about to drive off, she was confronted by these women who nearly mobbed her.
“They were calmed by some teachers who heard their piercing voices which rented the air. The women told the suspect to take the girl to a hospital or else they would petition the commissioner of police, Lagos state.
“In spite of their warnings to report her to the authorities, the woman stubbornly came to the school on Friday March 9, accompanied by the child victim whose wounds were manifestly untreated.
“On seeing that their warnings were taken for granted, the women made good their promise to call the attention of the commissioner of police, who immediately ordered the arrest of the woman."
Oti said that investigation into the case was in progress, stressing that the woman would be charged to court on Monday, March 12.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Lagos command, on Friday, January 5, 2018, arraigned one Nkechinyere Nwajagu, a banker, for maltreating a child.
Nwajagu was arrested and taken to court for locking up a child who was allegedly brought to her as a housemaid by a woman she claimed was her elder sister.
According to a report exclusively sent to NAIJ.com by the police public relations officer, SP Chike Oti, the woman would lock the child up in a poorly ventilated apartment when she leaves for work in the morning and would not release her until the close of work at night.
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Source: Naija.ng