A 39-year-old trader and mother of two, Chinwe Abasi, has been arrested in the Apapa area of Lagos for allegedly scalding a 12-year-old boy, Chinedu Okorie, with hot water because he collected N100 from a neighbour to buy a pair of socks to wear to school without her consent. The boy, said to be a JSS 1 student, worked as her sales assistant at Oyingbo Market where she reportedly sells cloth materials.
According to Punch, Okorie, had told her last Monday when schools resumed that he would need to buy a pair of socks for school. The trader allegedly ignored the boy until Thursday when a neighbour, identified only as Usman, gave Okorie N100 to buy the pair of socks.
Abasi reportedly learned about the neighbour’s gesture, became angry and beat up the boy. Okorie was said to have ran into the kitchen during the alleged beating where Abasi grabbed an electric kettle of boiling water and emptied it on him.
Okorie said,
“I told madam (Abasi) last Monday that I needed to buy a pair of socks for school. My teachers would seize my sandals without it. But she did not buy them, and I went to collect money from our neighbour.
When she saw the pair of socks, she became angry and started to beat me. I ran into the kitchen. That was where she grabbed the electric kettle and poured the content ─ hot water ─ on me. It was around 7pm on Thursday.”
She was arrested after the matter was reported at the FESTAC Police Division.
The matter was also reported to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, and a temporary shelter was provided for the boy, where he also received medical attention.
Claiming her brutal action was not deliberate, Abasi said,
“On Monday, pupils resumed school, and Chinedu (Okorie) told me he needed a pair of socks and I said I would buy them for him. Unfortunately, when I came back, I forgot. Later, our neighbour said Chinedu collected N100 from him to buy the pair of socks. I was angry.
I queried him and warned him against the behaviour. On Thursday, I gave him N100 to buy another pair of socks. When he came back, he told me he used the money for something else. So, I beat him up.
There were times when I gave him N1,000 to go and buy fuel. He would spend three hours and later say he misplaced the money. So, I disciplined him on Thursday.
He ran into the kitchen, and that was when I mistakenly poured the water on him.
I sell clothes at the Oyingbo Market. He is my domestic help. I brought him from his village in Enugu State about four years ago. The boy is stubborn. I am not a bad woman.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, revealed she would be charged to court soon.
I don’t understand why people are still giving away their kids to others, don’t they hear all these news of terrible experiences we read here daily????
Is this a king of discipline abi na training
Is this a kind of discipline abi na training
You are not a bad woman! You can tell that to the court….. Rubbish talk.
She devil.
Mere seeing the news without d content I already know that the boy is not her son else she won’t do it to her own blood
See wickedness. There is God o
Lord have mercy
Hot temper is not good at all
She’s wicked; simple. This matter is too small foe beating up na not to talk of pouring hot water.by the way if she had bought the socks for the boy; am sure this wouldn’t have happened
Don’t know what to say
Mistakenly??? Like your hand held the kettle up in the air for the water to spill on his shoulder and chest mistakenly?.. madam you try.
This is sheer wickedness
If na ur son do that thing,u go pour am hot water?wicked thing!
Wicked & devilish woman
Some people’s wickedness is out of this world.
Good woman indeed.Let her be punished accordingly
Heartless woman
Wicked woman
May u be punished
I don’t understand why people are still giving away their kids to others, don’t they hear all these news of terrible experiences we read here daily????
Is this a king of discipline abi na training
Is this a kind of discipline abi na training
You are not a bad woman! You can tell that to the court….. Rubbish talk.
She devil.
Mere seeing the news without d content I already know that the boy is not her son else she won’t do it to her own blood
See wickedness. There is God o
Lord have mercy
Hot temper is not good at all
She’s wicked; simple. This matter is too small foe beating up na not to talk of pouring hot water.by the way if she had bought the socks for the boy; am sure this wouldn’t have happened
Don’t know what to say
Mistakenly??? Like your hand held the kettle up in the air for the water to spill on his shoulder and chest mistakenly?.. madam you try.
This is sheer wickedness
If na ur son do that thing,u go pour am hot water?wicked thing!
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