Barely a week after one Mr. Benjamin Endurance, burnt his 4-year-old daughter with hot boiling ring for bed-wetting, in Bayelsa state, , an Abuja-based woman has reportedly brutalized her child as punishment for the same reason.
DAILY POST learnt that the woman, simply identified as Chioma, an indigene of Ishiagu, Ebonyi State, is a mother of four residing at Jesus Avenue in Apo, Abuja.
According to actress cum human rights activist, Dorothy Njamanze, “On 22nd October, 2016, word reached us about a child whose hand was cut off by her mother as a disciplinary measure for bed wetting. We went there and met the other children of the woman, neighbours and the Chemist that administered first aid.
“The mother cut through the flesh on the child’s wrist with the intent to severe the wrist. She had cut the flesh and was focusing on cutting the bone when neighbors were able to intervene in the interest of the girl.
“Chioma is in police custody and as at Monday, the social welfare department had called the relatives of the woman to take the child home and keep her in their custody, pending when the case will be resolved.
“The child’s hand has been stitched but she slept in the police station yesterday.
“The woman’s brutal acts on the kids had earlier been reported but the police detained and released Chioma after a short while. The reason for this remained unknown as Chioma went back to her old ways before she was rearrested.
“The woman has been involved in violating children as we established before now that she brought a teenage daughter of her sister from the village, whom she forced into prostitution. Men come to negotiate sex with her and she (Chioma) collects the money.
“It was the neighbours who made a way for the girl to return back to the village before the woman subsequently brought in another girl, the 10-year-old victim, whom she claims is her biological daughter living in the village.
“Since she is not ripe for commercial sex work, Chioma has turned her into a violated minor as she uses wire, knife and all manner of materials to torture her, before the last straw that broke the camel’s back.
“She also flogged the other children with wire, places them on the floor and steps on their faces.
“The police is aware that there are other children whom this woman has brutally tortured, what have they done about them? They have been stricken with all manner of skin diseases, which family would take them in to infect their own children?”
When DAILY POST contacted the Inspector of Police, IPO / JWC, Juvenile Welfare Centre, Insp. Esther at the Apo Police Station, she could not be reached for comments as her phone was switched off.
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