A 14- year-old house maid, Otobong Edet  John, had her buttocks seared with  hot electric iron  by her mistress, simply identified as  Ekaette, on the suspicion that she  was promiscuous.
Narrating her ordeal, Otobong said she was receiving a call on her phone when the madam operating a canteen  asked her  who was on the phone and she said it was one of her friends.  “But madam did not believe me and started beating me. So I ran and stayed somewhere with my friend”,she stated.
 According to her, she remained in that place until about 10p.m. when she went to sleep in a church close to their shop and the next morning “when I was about coming to the shop, a neighbour saw me discussing with a customer who was asking me where I was coming from so early in the morning  and went to tell my aunty that I spent the night with the  man”.
The madam, she said,  went to the police station at nearby Atimbo Road, Calabar and reported to them that the man  abducted her housemaid.
But after the police interrogated the man, they let him go and this infuriated Ekaette following which she allegedly dragged Otobong to the shop, plugged the electric iron and when it was red hot, she used the scorched parts to sear the maid’s body including her buttocks and right arm. Not done yet, she allegedly put a basin of banana on the girl’s head, asking her to go to town and sell even as her arm and buttocks were bleeding.
“It was a customer who wanted to buy banana that saw  that my arm was bleeding and asked me what happened and, when I showed him my buttocks, he shouted and took me to the police”, she said.
The mistress, while being interrogated by the police at Akim Police Division for causing bodily harm to a minor,  justified her action by saying that  Otobong  was  a  rude and wayward girl.  “When she told me it was Mary that called her, I called back that number and it was a male voice that answered and she then changed the story that she did not know what the man wanted after she had discussed with the man for over two  minutes”,Ekaette said.
She said there were instances when the girl had gone  from home to stay with men even as she had repeatedly cautioned her to change her ways. “That girl you are seeing is a very wayward girl and, if I tell you her story,  you would marvel”, she said.
The Public Relations Officer for the Cross River State Police Command, DSP John Umoh, said the action of Ekaette was unacceptable as it amounted to child abuse and “after investigations she would be taken to court”.

I hope some time behind bars will result from this

Now, if this househelp turn out to maltreat this woman' child, we will all call it wickedness, but in actual fact, actions and reactions are equal and opposite.
I just hope justice is done, because this is gross wickedness............hot iron...........hawking while bleeding...................some human beings are highly terrible and inhuman..........haba!!!, to an helpless child.........
Okay o, karma will soon visit, and by then, she shouldnt think some people from the village are after her, she will definately reap what she had sown.





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If she thinks d gurl is wayward, why not take her back 2 her parents instead of causing such bodily harm! I am not used 2 slapping ladies, buh on seeing ids kind of wickedness I myt slap ! Jeeeezzz , how wil she feel if some1 was 2 do same 2 her daughter?

Raymondenyi: If she thinks d gurl is wayward, why not take her back 2 her parents instead of causing such bodily harm! I am not used 2 slapping ladies, buh on seeing ids kind of wickedness I myt slap ! Jeeeezzz , how wil she feel if some1 was 2 do same 2 her daughter?

Save your slap biko she is not worth it. What she deserves is some time in jail and knowing the Lagos state government, she will get it

wishes n wizards! Ds is just gross n proves the militant nature of d average Nig - always trying to force feed people with their own values. Shioor!

Must she stay with a house maid? Let her send her own children to run errand, hawk for her and send the poor girl home to her parent before she kills her..