Lagos Adopts Nine-Year-Old Housemaid Tortured With Hot Water

The Lagos State Government says Precious Chinwedu, a nine-year-old housemaid, who was tortured by her boss for allegedly stealing crayfish is now in its custody. Punch correspondent learnt that the Office of the Public Defender had 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. Punch correspondent had reported on January 12, 2016, that Chinwedu’s boss, Ifeoma Mbakwe, had on December 27, 2015, sent her to bring the crayfish in the kitchen but she
could not find it. The woman, however, accused her of eating the crayfish without her consent.In a fit of anger, she reportedly beat up the girl before pouring hot water on her.It was reported that the woman forced her to sleep in pains on that day before taking her to the hospital the following morning.Chinwedu had 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.