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.14-0
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.”