UPDATE: 12 Year Old Girl Kidnapped by Domestic Staff in Lagos Found in Ogun

Recently news broke about a domestic staff Mary, who fled with her employer’s 12-year-old daughter, Faith. (read here). The incident was reported to have taken place in Lagos state. New reports have emerged stating that Faith was found in Ogun state.

Saturday PUNCH reveals that Paul, the father of the victim said his daughter was found by a man who read the report.

He said:

“The man called us that he found my daughter on the road. He said he saw her picture in ‘Punch’ newspaper and he got my number to call us so we could come and take her.

My wife said she would go and we had to get some policemen to follow her there. The police were able to arrest two suspects and the case was taken to Abeokuta, Police station before it was transferred to the anti-kidnapping section of the Surulere Police Division.”

Shedding more light on the issue is Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, who alleged it was a case of absconding and not kidnap adding that Faith fled her parents’ home on her own volition.

She added:

“What happened was that the girl, Faith, claimed that her mother was too harsh on her and she decided to run away with the housemaid, who was eloping with her boyfriend.

When they got to Abeokuta, the home of the boyfriend, the man decided to habour the two of them. It was there that he was sleeping with the maid, Mary, who had equally been declared missing by her parents.

The boyfriend, however, started having an affair with Faith as well, which got the maid jealous. As a way of revenging, she decided to call Faith’s parents to tell them their whereabouts. That was how the secret was leaked. The matter is under investigation.”