The Federal Government has paraded an Anambra State lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor who allegedly inserted a hot knife into the private part of a 10-year-old maid.
Okafor who also pressed the buttock and face of the ten-year-old maid with hot electric iron was paraded on Friday in Abuja.
The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye noted that President Bola Tinubu has already said the poor should breathe what that means is that the Nigerians should be more respected and treated with compassion.
“My ministry will take action when any one tempers with any child or woman.” The minister stressed.
On her part, the suspect alleged that the victim was caught having sex with her 6-year-old son “she was having sex with my 6-year-old son in the car. I bought a cane and flogged her on her buttocks. I was cooking at the same time, my son told me that it wasn’t the first time that she touches his penis whenever she is bathing her and the girl confirms it too.
“She tried to escape through the kitchen door and the door was locked. She mistakenly pushed the food on the gas and mistakenly sat on the burning gas. I did not use knife to cut her clitoris with hot knife, I did not use iron on her”
The inspector general of Police Kayode Egbetokun, described the case as child abuse/attempted murder.
She inserted a hot knife into her private part, poured grinded pepper and pressed the maid’s cheeks and buttocks with a hot electric iron.
From the afternoon of the incident to the evening of the next day, she locked the maid in her toilet without food after which she took the child naked the following day to her aunt who gave her out as a maid.
Unfortunately, the little girl is in the hospital with the hope that she recuperates fast because of the intense burn on her, no one knows the extent of the internal injury inflicted on her by the hot knife that was used on her.
Meanwhile, the inspector general of police has assured Nigerians that a diligent prosecution of this case will be carried out and no iota of the incident will be swept under the carpet to ensure that justice is served to the little girl.
The IGP stressed that this will serve a note of warning to those who use little children for child labour, noting that the Nigerian police have zero tolerance for domestic violence and abuse of vulnerable persons.
