Woman Gets Blinded By Husband Over House Maid | Read Her Sad Story

A 32-year-old woman, Precious, is blind in one eye, due to the domestic abuse she has endured in her husband’s house. She has 4 children with her husband, Samuel and revealed that she married him when she was 14. Precious told Punch Metro that she had endured 18 years of domestic violence, adding that she was fed up with the marriage and wanted a divorce.

“Sometime last year, my housemaid told me that my husband beat her up. I went to ask him why he did that, knowing that if anything happened to the girl, I would be held responsible. When my husband heard that, he left what he was doing and started chasing me. That was around 10pm. I ran out of the house. When I fell, he stamped on my eye and everything went dark. I visited the Lagos Island General Hospital for treatment, but they said I would need to undergo a corrective surgery which would cost N180,000. I got married to him when I was only 14 because my mum didn’t want me to get into prostitution like other girls in the village. As of then, I didn’t even know how to talk to men,” She said

Precious works as an assistant cook at a restaurant in Lagos where she earns 700 naira daily. She also pays for the rent of their two bedroom flat with that amount. They were issued an eviction notice, she sought help from one of their neighbours. Her husband who got wind of it, beat her up with a cutlass for it.

Samuel was arrested and detained at the Area C Police Command, Surulere, but released much later when the case was withdrawn by his wife. When reporters reached out to her as to why she did withdraw the case, this is what she had to say:

“I withdrew the case because my children said I should not continue with it. His mother also said she would die if I didn’t withdraw it. Our church also begged me. Let me leave everything to God; He will fight for me. I am looking for funds to relocate from the house because I don’t want to die before my time.”