At the Onitsha Chief Magistrate Court, Chiamaka , a mother of
two, was arraigned by the police yesterday for savagely biting her
nine-year-old maid all over the body, including her private part.
Chiamaka,
who hails from Eziagu in Enugu State, was arraigned in suit number
MO/38/2013 for allegedly inflicting bodily harm on her maid, Nnenna
Nwafor, on July 25 when she allegedly used
dangerous weapons and her
teeth to inflict injuries on the girl.
The Police Prosecution
counsel, Mr. Uwakwe Okoji, told the court that the crime was committed
at No 7 Udemba Street, Woliwo Onitsha.
He described the act as
not only evil, but also one of man’s inhumanity to man. He equally told
the court that the husband of the suspect had since sent her out of his
house because of the act, while praying the court to look into the
matter with a view to bringing the suspect to justice.
The
victim's mother who is a widow amidst tears told the court that she
never knew that the injuries on her daughter were so serious until when
she(victim) removed her pant and she noticed that she had a very serious
cut in her private part.
The victim, Nnenna, while narrating her
after the court session, painted a gory picture of what she passed
through in the hands of her mistress. She said that on several
occasions, her mistress had poured hot water on her, and attacked her
with dangerous weapons on some other occasions.
She further
disclosed how her mistress forced her down and ordered her to open her
legs before biting her severally in her private part, after inflicting
same on her buttocks and other parts of her body.
The presiding
Magistrate, Mr. M A Okonkwo, said he was dumbfounded over the incident,
adding that he never believed that a woman, who had passed through pains
of childbirth, could inflict this type of injuries on a daughter of a
fellow woman and ordered the suspect to be remanded in prison custody
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