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Tuesday 2 April 2013
Man pours hot water on 13-year-old housemaid
Some people are very very wicked in this world.............A 13-year-old girl, Precious Edu, has accused the brother-in law of her
employer of pouring hot water on her. Edu, who said she was denied the
opportunity of attending school after she was brought to work with
Esther Amunde and her brother-in-law, Papa, in Calabar, Cross River
State, said Papa poured the water on her after accusing her of splashing
water on him. She said after the hot water left some burns on her neck,
shoulder and chest, she was left to wallow in pains for two days until
neighbours took her to the hospital for medical attention. Narrating her
ordeal to PUNCH Metro on Saturday on her sick bed, Edu, who is
currently being treated at the Calabar General Hospital, said she was
brought to Ekorinim area of the state from Obudu in the northern part of
the state to work as housemaid on the agreement that she would continue
her secondary education. But the situation changed as she was allegedly
denied schooling by Amunde, who insisted that Edu must not be
distracted from taking care of her little son. Edu said, “Sometime in
2012, one woman, Amaman appealed to my mother to release me as a
housemaid to her sister, Esther Amunde, residing in Calabar because she
needed somebody to stay with her. “When my mother accepted, it was with
the understanding that I would continue my schooling. I initially stayed
with Amunde’s mother in Obudu for three months before Amunde came
during Obudu new yam festival in August 2012 to take me to Calabar.” Edu
said on getting to Calabar, she worked full time as housemaid until
September when she expected that she would resume school with other
children. She said she reminded Amunde to register her in a school in
Ekorinim, but she turned down the request, saying her work was to take
care of her son.” Edu said, “Amunde refused to register me in school
insisting that my duty in her house was to take care of her (Amunde)
son. “I was attending Girls Secondary School in my village and I was in
JS-1. Even when I was with her mother (Amunde) briefly before coming to
Calabar, she allowed me to go to school. But my boss said because of her
son, I cannot attend school.” Edu alleged that in the course of
carrying out her duties, she was maltreated and abused by Papa. She
alleged that it was Papa that poured the hot water on her after a slight
misunderstanding. She said, “In the morning of March 9, I unplugged a
kettle and was turning the water in it into a bucket when Papa said the
water splashed on him. He soon brought a smaller bowl, dipped it into
the bucket of hot water and poured it on me. “When I told my boss about
the incident, she neither reacted nor did anything to the burn. It was
after my skin had had started peeling because of the burn that Amunde
gave me two tablets of Panadol to use. “However, when I went to fetch
water from the borehole five days later, some neighbours saw my peeling
skin and screamed. One of them took me to the general hospital.” At the
hospital, a nurse, who identified herself as Alice, said a child rights
activist, Mr. James Ibor, was called and he, in turn, alerted the
police. Ibor said, “We have made written requests to the Cross River
State Commissioner of Police to effect the arrest of Amunde and Papa to
face the law because what they have done amounts to felony.” The
activist said what they did by taking Udu from her mother to serve as
housemaid was human trafficking. He said Udu would thereafter be taken
to an orphanage where she would eventually be taken back to her parents
after the wound had healed. Efforts to get Amunde and Papa to speak on
the issue proved abortive. When contacted, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. John Umoh, said he was yet to be briefed of the
incident
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