A 12-year-old girl, Mmesoma Ani has been allegedly battered by her aunt for stealing a piece of meat in the pot
A trader on Nurudeen street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos state, where the incident happened, raised the alarm on Tuesday, October 25.
A mother of three has allegedly beaten a 12-year-old girl, Mmesoma Ani without mercy, claiming that the girl stole a piece of meat from the pot. The incident occured at their house on Nurudeen street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos state.
Mmesoma Ani was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Surulere, after the beating she received from her aunt, Mrs Ogechi Iruwane.
Punch reports that Iruwane used her bare hands to pinch off the victim’s chest, and inflicted injuries on her back. Ani was also said to have been starved for two days.
A trader in the vicinity, raised the alarm on Tuesday, October 25. The case was reported to the Lagos state Office of the Public Defender (OPD).
Officials of the agency reportedly apprehended the suspect and subsequently handed her over to the police at the Orile Iganmu division. The victim was afterward taken to LUTH.
The trader who discovered the incident, said she saw the injuries when the little girl returned an empty bottle of soft drink she had sold to them previously.
”I observed that she was not walking well. I drew closer to her and that was when I saw that her hands were also swollen. She said her aunt flogged her.
”She showed me her chest and I saw that the skin covering one of her maturing breasts had been pinched off. I was shocked when she removed her clothes and I saw serious injuries on her back,” she said.
The trader who would not disclose her name for security reasons explained that she called the attention of passersby to see the injuries that Mrs Ogechi Iruwane inflicted on the girl’s body.
”I wanted to take her back to the aunt to ask why she battered the girl so badly without taking her to a hospital, but her neighbors told me it was not the first time she would beat her. I decided to report the matter to the OPD,” she added.
A source at the OPD said the residents prevented the suspect from escaping when she went to find out why Ani had not returned home from the errand she sent her.
”The girl claimed that she was 12 years old, even though she looked younger. She also looked malnourished.
”There were different scars on her back. The irony is that the suspect has three children and they look well-fed.
”The girl claimed that she is the 11th of 12 children her parents. adding the woman came to take her from her parents in Enugu state in December 2015.
”She said she was in primary three before she was brought to Lagos, but since her arrival, she had not been going to school.
”She said the woman accused her of stealing a piece of meat and for about two days, she was not given food to eat,” the source said.
The director of the OPD, Salami Olubukola, commended the trader that reported the case, urging residents of the state to always be on the watch for child abuse cases.
”The girl is now in our care. We will not relent in our efforts to stem the tide of child abuse in Lagos State,” she added.
The police public relations officer, Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident. She added that the matter would soon be charged to court.
Meanwhile, Olubunmi Uko, a mother of three has allegedly walked out of her home with one of her sons after leaving a suicide note at her Fola Agoro home in Somolu.
The businesswoman was gathered to have left her home on Wednesday, August 17 at about 5.00 am with her last child, identified as Seun.
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