Medical Doctor Arrested For Scalding 16-Year-Old Househelp

A medical female doctor has been reprimanded by the police for allegedly scalding her household after emptying a hot pot of yam on him.

16-year-old Nwanga Chidiebere, a house-help who is currently on admission at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA), Ebonyi State was allegedly attacked by his madam, Jane-Glad Ugba who poured hot water on him, the New Telegraphy newspaper reports.

According to the media;

Chidiebere had just returned from school on the fateful day and was about washing clothes when Jane, a female doctor at FETHA told him to go and boil yam that her children would have for lunch. 
He said while the yam was on the stove, he decided to start the clothes, with plans to check it from time to time.

But while he was still washing, Ugba asked her eldest son to go and wash the plates. Chidiebere disclosed that the boy left the door open while he went to clean the lines on which he would spread the clothes.
The JSS 3 student of Presco Secondary School, Abakaliki, said while he was cleaning the lines, his boss yelled at him for leaving the door open.

Meanwhile, the yam got burnt. Chidiebere said; “In anger, she grabbed the pot and emptied the whole hot content on my back and it injured me seriously. The pain was so much that I ran outside where I almost cried out my eyeballs from their sockets. She then asked me to go and clean where I washed clothes and after that I should pack my things and leave her house that she did not want to live with me again.”

The victim said he went to see Mr Ugba’s sister who, after seeing his burnt skin, called her brother. According to him, Mr Ugba asked him to come back home but before he got home, they had already locked the gate. He maintained that he had to sleep at a church site until the next morning.

When he went back to his madam, he found out that the gate was still locked. With nowhere to go, Chidiebere started roaming about until a female member of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) accosted him and asked him why he was loitering.

According to him, the NSCDC official threatened to arrest him before she noticed the burns on his face and asked him what happened. He said after his explanation, the officer took him to the hospital which coincidentally is the same hospital where Mrs. Ugba works. Chidiebere added that his ‘madam’ did not know his whereabouts until she came to work and saw him on admission.

Efforts to reach the doctor were futile. Our correspondent was not allowed to speak with work or in her house. When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP George Onuorah, confirmed the incident. Onuorah disclosed that Ugba has been arrested and the case has been charged to court.