Woman boiled Hot water and Pours it on Her 8-year-old House Help For Licking her baby's Milk (photos)
The young girl, who has been so dehumanized, starved and malnourished told our reporter that she was left with no other option but to feed on sand so as not to die of hunger.
Amarachi Oha from Ugwueme town in Agwu Local Government Area of Enugu State was last week rescued by the Human Rights Legal Aid Initiative from the woman she was serving as a house help in Anambra State.
Amarachi took up the service hoping for better life with promises that she would be sent to school in return for service, but how wrong she was. He hope has been dashed few years after she went into servitude with Mrs Ogochukwu Anichukwu and her husband Mr. Emmanuel Anichukwu.
She was subjected to torture, flogged mercilessly and starved repeatedly forcing her to feed on sand to survive.
Already, her right hand has been disfigured due to the hard objects Ogochukwu deployed in beating her for allegedly eating baby milk. But Ogochukwu appeared not content with scourging her. Only last week, she poured hot water on the poor girl damaging her private parts. This is taking place when the little girl is just healing from injuries she suffered after hot water was poured on her back.
As God would have it a man who had visited to see Ogochukwu after she gave birth saw the little girl looking pale and malnourished with bruises all over reported the couple to the Human Rights Legal Initiative in Ekwulobia, Anambra State.
Following the report, the woman and her husband were on Thur sday taken into custody by the police from Uga Area Command, Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra state.
The woman who is living in a family house in Nanka Orumba North Local Government Area told www.starconnectmedia.com that she poured hot water on the girl in annoyance because she licked her new baby’s milk and that she is fond of fiddling with the private parts of her male children and little daughter in her absence.
“She licked my baby milk and always touching my son’s manhood and fingering my daughter’s private parts and out of annoyances I poured the hot on her” she stated.
She also said that the eight years old girl has become so immune to beating that she no longer feels pain when beaten. She however admitted that she would do the same to her children if they were found to have taken her baby’s milk without permission.
On why she had not taken the girl to hospital for treatment even when she is in pain, she said her family lacked money to take her to hospital and consequently giving her treatment at home.
According to her, they were unable to return the girl to her parents because the mother’s number was not going through and that there was nothing they could do about it.
Ogochukwu said her husband has spent a lot of money taking care of the girl in the house and that he was doing everything possible to make her happy. On why the girl is eating sand, she said that the girl claimed that she loves eating sand not because she was not being fed.
She also told our correspondent that she got the girl through her friend from her village in Ugwueme town, Agwu Local Government Area of Enugu state.
Speaking from her sick bed in Ekwulubia, Amarachi denied eating the baby’s milk and that she does not know anything about the milk in question.
Amarachi who had injuries all over her body said if at all the milk was eaten, she was not aware but that it could have been done by Ogochukwu’s children. She said that the woman always subjects her to beating and told her to lie that she took the milk. On why she was eating sand, she said she ate sand in order not to die of hunger.
Speaking to our correspondent, the coordinator of Human Rights Legal Aid Initiative Ekwulubia zone , Comrade Emmanuel Akanaeme said they were in office last Thursday when one man just walked in and laid the complaint but that they could not go that day because they thought the case was not so serious and moreover it was late but that the following day being Friday they visited the couple in their home located in the bush and found the girl groaning in pains and with injuries all over her body.
“The girl was damaged badly. There are sores all over her- she is looking haggard and with protruding stomach. The woman has used hard objected to beat her and in the process damaged her finger nails. Her face and mouth are littered with wounds due to the sticks and other objects used in battering her.
“The girl looks frail , hungry, malnourished and traumatized and we asked the woman what happened ,she said that she mistakenly poured hot water on her. And when we took the child aside to interrogate her ,she said that she was hungry that she would like to eat fufu(a local solid food with soup) before she could have strength to talk and we promised to give her the food if she will tells us the truth.
“After eating the food ,the girl said the woman was always beating her and that she never took any milk to drink. She also said she ate sand sometimes to stay alive. We then, went back to the woman to find out why they have not taken the girl to hospital and she said they did not have money to take to her to hospital but that they were buying medicine for her. We then told her husband to take the girl to hospital and report to our office on Monday but they never honored our invitations.
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