See What Woman Constantly Does to 12-Year-Old Boy in Her Custody

A trader simply identified as Mama Sarah allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old boy in her custody last Sunday by placing a hot iron on his leg and making incisions on his body with a blade. The boy, Michael Maduagu, a primary one pupil at Bonny Camp Primary School, was said to have been brought from Anambra State and put in her care when he was barely five.

According to The Nation, Mama Sarah’s fellow traders at Bar Beach Bus Stop on Victoria Island yesterday reported her constant inhuman treatment of the boy, urging government to prosecute her.

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Musbau Agbodemu, Executive Director of Rural and Urban Development Initiative (RUDI), a pressure group, said the boy is now in the custody of the Ministry of Woman Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. He added:

“When he was brought to our office, he wasn’t in a good state. His body is full of scars and bruises. He couldn’t talk much because of fear. I learnt she brought him to Lagos with the pretext of taking care of him after his father’s death. I just pray this matter will be treated with utmost urgency because she was summoned on Wednesday.”

A fellow trader, Buchi said since Mama Sarah was summoned on Wednesday, she has been acting weird, adding that she has been planning to run away with her daughter.

“I moved to Bar Beach six years ago and I got to know Mama Sarah through Michael. He was always sad. I mostly saw him on the expressway selling fuel. Things I cannot lift, Michael will lift it. There was a time I bought him food; I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the woman eating the food.

The boy once pleaded with me to take him home but I couldn’t because I didn’t want to be accused of kidnapping. So, I asked him to report his guardian to Bar Beach Police Station but they didn’t take his matter serious.

Most times she accuses him of stealing but I know he is not a thief. There was a day Sarah, her daughter, beat him with a stick. It was when I couldn’t continue to see the boy suffer I took him to RUDI,” she said.

Another trader, Celestial, said:

“There is nothing she cannot use to beat him. At times, she used naked wire, hot knife and put grinded pepper on his wound. She is that mean. I personally went to her place of work to report to her boss. I don’t know the reason they haven’t come to pick her. Is it until she escapes? I think she also needs to be tortured to know how it feels.”

A resident, Destiny Francis, added:

“I was shocked when I heard that she uses hot knife on boy’s legs. Three of her own children left her when her trouble was too much. It is just her last born that lives with her and that one is something else. She sometimes beat her mother. I want justice to prevail.”

We hope poor Michael gets justice in earnest.