UPDATE: 9-Year-Old Maid Bathed with Hot Water Adopted By Lagos State Government
Precious Chinwedu, the nine-year-old housemaid tortured and scalded by her boss for allegedly stealing crayfish (read here) is now in the Lagos State Government’s custody.
Punch reports the Office of the Public Defender has moved the primary three pupil, who hails from Orlu, Imo State, from Rem-Yems Hospital in the Agbado area of Lagos, where she had been on admission since December 28, 2015.
Confirming this, the Director OPD, Mrs. Omotola Rotimi, said, “The attention of the governor and the Attorney General was drawn to the plight of Precious Chinwedu, whose boss poured hot water on. We were instructed to take over the matter and the girl has been taken from the hospital with the help of the police. She is now in our protective custody.”
Rotimi added that OPD would provide a legal representative for the victim for the prosecution of the case.
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“Henceforth, our legal representative will appear in court on behalf of the victim and we will ensure that the case is diligently prosecuted to get justice for her,” she added.
Chinwedu’s boss, Ifeoma Mbakwe, who has been arraigned in court, had carried out the brutal assault on December 27, 2015, and reportedly forced her to sleep in pains that day before taking her to the hospital the following morning.
Recounting her ordeal, Chinwedu previously said,
“She (Mbakwe) said I should go and bring crayfish, but I told her I did not see it. She said I ate it. She used something we used to grind pepper to hit my head. She bit me in the back and poured hot water on me. I complained that my body was paining me. But she told me to go and sleep like that.
She does not give me food regularly. There is no food for me in the afternoon when I come back from the school. Sometimes, she would not give me food in the evening. She always beats me. I want to go back to my parents.”
Some people’s wickedness is alarming. Just because of crayfish u want to kill a child smh. Parents should start learning to keep their children with them and train them instead of giving birth and waiting for someone else to do it Mtscheeeeeeewwww.
Chie I pity d poor girl pls u pole shld pour hot water on dt woman,s body
Woman can u do dis to ur own daughter?
Awwwwww woman ur heartless oooooo!
This is so bad! God have mercy ooooooo. Thank you lagos state government for saving this poor child.
By the time Nigerian government makes it a law for people to have just one or two kids, this madness of giving out little kids as maids will stop. You sent your 9 year old to go and work as a help in Lagos all the way from Imo state? Is she not supposed to be your sole responsibility??? What’s her offense???
Oh my God
The things people do to other people’s children in the name of punishment without a second thought about their own children!!!???… What a life!
Oh my God. This is witchcraft. That woman is a devil. Pls government should pour hot water on her to know how it feels
Some women are very heartless. They sold their hearts to the devil. Can’t even do that to her own child
Good move by the govt.
This woman would have gotten her own coins if we still follow moses law,the power of the media brought LSG to the situation & a welcome development by them
When a woman gives birth to 10 children when she can hardly feed,she ends up sending them off as maids to suffer such fate.Beats me when a woman who knows the pains of labour metes such wickedness to another woman’s child
Some people are just too heartless
This is pure wickedness am short of words. People re so wicked
May God bless God Ambode and his government.
Lord have mercy
Wickedness
What is some women turning to????????monster??????
She devil!!!. So annoying. Gosh
Jesus christ this is wicked
na wa oo.
Hei, this is too much.i suggest they pour her double portions of the hot water b4 taking her to court
Evil wicked thing