The Nigeria Police Force has paraded an Anambra-based lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor, who was recently apprehended for allegedly assaulting her 10-year-old househelp.
The police had declared the lawyer wanted and placed a N2m bounty on her for allegedly using a red-hot knife, an electric pressing iron, and other weapons to brutalise the underage househelp.
The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumiyiwa Adejobi, while addressing the press at the Force Criminal Investigation Department on Friday in Abuja on Friday, noted that it was a case of attempted murder and child abuse.
Adejobi, who was represented by CSP Olabisi Okuwobi, the National Coordinator, Police Campaign against Cultism and other Vices, explained that the househelp had only worked for two weeks at the house of the suspect before the incident occurred.
He said the suspect alleged that she saw the househelp fondling the private part of her six-year-old son while bathing him.
“On January 29, 2024, this suspect accused her of this and proceeded to tie her hands, mouth and flog her. She also inserted a hot knife into her private part and poured ground pepper into it. She then plugged an electric iron into the socket, allowed it to be hot, and used it on the maid’s cheek and buttocks.
“After causing the maid trauma, she now locked her up in the toilet from the afternoon of the incident till the evening of the following day without food,” he said.
