26-year old Blessing Uche, has allegedly poured hot water on a six-year-old girl’s private part at Aboru, Alimosho area of Lagos State. She also slashed her face with blade.
The woman’s reason for her brutality reports say was because the girl let her baby fall off her hand.
According to reports, the woman asked the girl to boil water which she poured on her private part as punishment, causing severe burns on the girl.
Uche had claimed that when she returned from Iyana Ipaja, she discovered that her baby fell while she was away and decided to punish the little girl.
A neighbour was said to have reported the matter to Esther Child Rights Foundation, ECRF, a non-governmental organization, campaigning against child abuse.
The little girl was rescued by the foundation on Saturday and taken to the Gowon Estate Police Station and had been under the care of the police station since then, while the woman was arrested and detained and would be arraigned in court any time from now.
The girl was not taken to the hospital after hot water was poured on her. Rather, she was taken to a medicine store for attention.
A police source, who opted for anonymity, described the act as wicked, saying that the woman would be arraigned at the Ojokoro Magistrate’s Court.
Speaking to newsmen, Director, ECRF, Mrs. Esther Ogwu said that when she got to the woman’s one room apartment, she was disgusted to see the girl in pains and unkempt, saying that “I wept when I saw her; it is the height of wickedness.
“It is terrible; I can’t believe somebody can do such a thing to a child, let alone the daughter of her senior sister. I cried the first day I saw the girl.”
Ogwu also blamed the parents of the girl for releasing her at such a tender age to stay with a relation, saying if she had her way, the parents should be detained to serve as deterrent to others.
She also alleged that after pouring hot water on the girl, Uche used blade to slash her face, describing the act as cruel and that such a woman should not be allowed to go free.
Ogwu stated that the woman and her husband had been begging since the incident occurred but insisted that they must be punished for the offence so as to deter others from doing the same thing.
“We will surely charge her to court for pouring hot water on the little girl staying with her and for using razor blade to slash her face,” she said
Some persons are just being wicked, I wonder what it benefit them. Let the law take it’s full course.
i don’t know the problem with this country. i would prefer hot water to be poured on the woman private part. that is the only way she will know that what she did was wrong
This woman is possessed of the spirit of satan. She needed a deliverance.They should do the same thing to her. Foolish woman
My advice in this case is tit for tat. i believe the woman deserve the same punishment and must not be allowed to visit the hospital. medicine shops alone should be her resort. it is only this that will serve as a deterrent to others not going to court and may be serving six months in prison with good health.
This woman is EVIL she came out from the holds of the tree, only her gods will judge her if she have or will have a child
Ibo woman lyk 2 dey do dat kind tin 2much, she must not go free. Yeye woman.
The bain of coontinuous acts like this is ‘settlement’. Pls tell madam esther not to relent.
she must not be granted any bail at all hot water should be pore on her private part too daughter of luzifer hell is your home
She shld be duly punished 4 such a devilish act. If she could hv d gut 2 perpetrate such a wicked act on her niece, hw much more other people’s children. She nothg bt a devil incarnate.
dat wicked woman nid deliverance,..for da 6yr old gal, may our God of mercies be wit her,nd heal ha quickly