The Anambra state chapter of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a woman for the murder of her housemaid in the state.
The woman is said to have beaten her maid to death over an undisclosed reason then dumped her corpse in a bush.
After she was nabbed by NAPTIP operatives, she took them to the site where she abandoned the lifeless body of the deceased.
Speaking in a video serving rounds online, the woman confessed to beating the child till she started convulsing and she rushed her to a hospital but sadly, she was pronounced dead on arrival.
In a bid to get rid of the corpse, the woman said she dumped it in a bush.
Speaking in Igbo, she said: “I beat her and she started convulsing so I took her to Kings (hospital). Getting there, she died, so I threw her body here.”
The decomposing body of the maid was also captured in the video. The woman has been taken into custody and will be charged to court.
One Nmesoma Okoye was arrested on March 11, 2021 after beating a 10-year-old maid to death in Anambra, Southeast Nigeria.
In a report published on April 23, 2018, a 12-year-old house help in Anambra had her intestine ruptured and was also tortured in her privates by Nkechi Bartholomew whom she worked with.
Nkechi inserted sticks into Faith’s private parts and turned them over several times. In the process, her reproductive systems were ruptured leaving Faith needing multiple surgeries.
For not washing a kettle properly, a woman identified as Gloria blinded a 12-year-old boy in one eye. The issue occurred at Ikeja, Lagos on July 7, 2016. In another report published July 14, 2020, a house help whose family members were displaced by terrorists was molested and hospitalized in Kaduna.
In a related incident, Nene Fortune Stephens was arrested in Lagos on April 23, 2020 for torturing her maid to death over a dispute about salary arrears and stealing of noodles.
On June 16, 2018, police arrested Yetunde Bello for torturing her 10-year-old house help with a hot iron for damaging the knob of a tap on the premises of her residence in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos.