The Dutsen Alhaji Police Division of the Federal Capital
Territory Police Command, Abuja, has arrested a woman, Mrs. Roseline Uzoamaka,
for allegedly brutalising her 14-year-old relative, identified simply as Sarah,
because she was bed-wetting.
Our correspondent learnt that Uzoamaka allegedly forced the
teenager to sit on a burning electric cooker until the girl sustained severe
burns in her private parts as a punishment for urinating on the bed.
It was learnt that the incident occurred last Saturday,
August 23, at the family’s residence in Gwarimpa, Abuja.
Sarah, it was gathered, was Uzoamaka’s sister-in-law, being a
younger sister to her husband.
Our correspondent learnt that on the morning, the woman had
scolded the girl for continuously bedwetting, and asked her to sit on the
burning stove until her genitals were cooked by the heat.
It was gathered that Uzoamaka confessed in her statement to
the police that she did this because some friends had advised her that the way
to make her bedwetting sister-in-law recover from the problem was to make her
sit on a hot stove.
After the girl’s privates were affected by the heat, she was
said to have been rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment the same day. The
girl, our correspondent learnt, was still recuperating in the hospital.
The Abuja Police Command Public Relations Officer, Altine
Daniel, confirmed the arrest to our correspondent on the telephone.
She added that because of its severity, the case had been
transferred to the FCT Criminal Investigation Department.
She said, “Yes, the woman has been arrested. She told the
police that the reason she did that was because the girl was bedwetting.
“She said it was some of her friends who advised her to try
that as a solution. The girl is related to her husband. She is not her
housemaid.
“The case has been transferred from the division to the
Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.”
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