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14-year-old maid accused of promiscuity had buttocks burned
30 Mar 2013 at 14:22hrs | Views
14-year-old house maid, Otobong Edet John, had her buttocks seared with a hot electric iron by her mistress, Ekaette, on the suspicion that she was promiscuous.
Narrating her ordeal, Otobong said she was on her phone when the madam operating a canteen asked her who was on the phone.
She said it was one of her friends, "But madam did not believe me and started beating me. So I ran and stayed somewhere with my friend," she stated.
She says she remained there until about 10p.m. when she went to sleep in a church close to their shop.
The next morning she said a neighbour saw talking to a customer who was asking her where she was coming from so early in the morning.
The neighbour went to tell her madam that she had spent the night with a man.
The madam, went to the police station at nearby Atimbo Road, Calabar and reported to them that the man had abducted her housemaid.
But apparently after the police interrogated the man, they let him go and this infuriated Ekaette.
She allegedly dragged Otobong to the shop, plugged the electric iron in and when it was red hot, she seared the maid's body including her buttocks and right arm.
She then put a basin of banana on the girl's head, asking her to go to town and sell even as her arm and buttocks were bleeding.
"It was a customer who wanted to buy banana that saw that my arm was bleeding and asked me what happened and, when I showed him my buttocks, he shouted and took me to the police", she said.
The mistress justified her actions by saying that Otobong was a rude and wayward girl.
She said there were instances when the girl had gone from home to stay with men even as she had repeatedly cautioned her to change her ways.
The Public Relations Officer for the Cross River State Police Command, DSP John Umoh, said the action of Ekaette was unacceptable as it amounted to child abuse and "after investigations she would be taken to court".
Narrating her ordeal, Otobong said she was on her phone when the madam operating a canteen asked her who was on the phone.
She said it was one of her friends, "But madam did not believe me and started beating me. So I ran and stayed somewhere with my friend," she stated.
She says she remained there until about 10p.m. when she went to sleep in a church close to their shop.
The next morning she said a neighbour saw talking to a customer who was asking her where she was coming from so early in the morning.
The neighbour went to tell her madam that she had spent the night with a man.
The madam, went to the police station at nearby Atimbo Road, Calabar and reported to them that the man had abducted her housemaid.
She allegedly dragged Otobong to the shop, plugged the electric iron in and when it was red hot, she seared the maid's body including her buttocks and right arm.
She then put a basin of banana on the girl's head, asking her to go to town and sell even as her arm and buttocks were bleeding.
"It was a customer who wanted to buy banana that saw that my arm was bleeding and asked me what happened and, when I showed him my buttocks, he shouted and took me to the police", she said.
The mistress justified her actions by saying that Otobong was a rude and wayward girl.
She said there were instances when the girl had gone from home to stay with men even as she had repeatedly cautioned her to change her ways.
The Public Relations Officer for the Cross River State Police Command, DSP John Umoh, said the action of Ekaette was unacceptable as it amounted to child abuse and "after investigations she would be taken to court".
Source - 247nigerianewsupdate
