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Woman attacks maid, burns her breasts for waking late

A pregnant mother in Abuja faces criminal charges for a vicious early morning attack on her 16-year-old house help, who she attacked with steaming water, severely injuring the girl for waking late.

Kemi Egbukole, 36, poured boiling water on Hope David, badly burning her breasts, neighbours and officials said.

Police said Mrs. Egbukole, 36, would be charged after investigations are concluded.

Mrs. Egbukole is being investigated for child abuse and trafficking offences by the Police, National Human Rights
Commission and National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP.

The mother of one said she attacked Hope because she failed to wake up early. She had earlier denied responsibility for the assault.

According to the Deputy Director, Protection and Investigations, National Human Rights Commission, Lambert Oparah, Mrs. Egbukole later admitted the attack, but claimed it was an accident, and that Hope was immediately taken for medical treatment.

Mr. Oparah however noted that the medication given to Hope was faulty.

Hope David
Hope David

“She was taken to a chemist, they put plasters around her breast which was not quite good,” he said.

Neighbours at Minta 1 Estate, Lokogoma, Abuja, where the family lives, said Mrs. Egbukole had been a notorious child abuser, who repeatedly attacked Hope with dangerous objects including rods.

The latest attack happened on March 3, they said.

Testimonies of a neighbour

One of the neighbours who reported the matter to the National Human Rights Commission and the National Agency for the prohibition of Trafficking in Persons said she took the decision after seeing the serious injury inflicted on Hope’s breast.

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The neighbour further said she was startled by Hope’s screaming on March 3 morning, when the girl ran out from her home.

“She ran out of the house and came to my side,” the neighbour said. “Mrs. Egbukole was still trying to flog her with a mop stick.”

The neighbour said she followed similar treatments by Mrs. Egbukole on Hope for the two years the girl lived with Egbukoles.

The neighbour said at first she thought Hope was attacked with pepper or cold water as in the past.

“I thought it was just water and pepper, or something, until the girl screamed back again in my room and I shouted, ‘What!’ the breast has pilled already.

“So I shouted and said ‘Come you did this thing to this girl and you still want to flog her again?

“I will report you to the police and NAPTIP; at that point she started begging and immediately she started telling lies,” the neighbour said.

Mrs. Egbukole claimed Hope poured herself water, according to a neighbour.

But the woman had a history of abusing the girl, the neighbour said, citing how Mrs. Egbukole a day earlier had hit Hope with a curtain rail, injuring her in the head.

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