A housewife, Grace Monday,has been arrested in Lagos for allegedly torturing her three-year-old niece, Miracle Peter, to a coma.
Mrs. Grace allegedly flogged the victim for several hours at their home in the Ireodun, Agege area of Lagos State and subsequently slammed her head against a wall causing the toddler to faint. The offence of the little girl was that she always messed up the room with excreta.
It was gathered that Grace, who had been married for seven years without a child, had travelled to Kaduna sometime in July, 2015, to get the victim from her elder brother.
The toddler was always messing up the house with excrement and after verbal correction did not work, the suspect resorted to beating her.
A neighbour, Adijat Fatai, revealed that she had repeatedly spoken to Grace against beating the little girl so much and even complained to Grace’s husband to caution his wife, but he had responded that Miracle’s father had instructed them to beat the little girl till she stopped messing up the house.
However, Alice Abuye, who claimed to be a confidante of the suspect had this side of the story to tell:
“Grace loves little children. Unfortunately, she had been married for seven years without any issue. She said I should release my child to her so she could train her till she got her own but I refused. I told her to go to her village and get her relative’s child.On the night preceding the incident, she called me that the girl had started defecating again. After beating her, Miracle (Peter) told her if she confessed the reason for her misbehaviour, some spiritual forces would punish her. Grace and her husband prayed till 3 a.m. after hearing that.Around 8 a.m., she woke up and saw that Miracle was still sleeping. She woke her up to give her a bath. She was about leaving the house when she saw the girl had hit her head against the wall. Grace did not touch her.”
The suspect’s landlord Fatai Alimi, reported the case to the Isokoko Police Division where DPO Badmos Dolapo expressed that victim had been badly brutalised and the police will leave no stone unturned in the case.
The Lagos State Office of the Public Defender had taken custody of the victim. She is currently unable to walk and is receiving treatment in a general hospital.
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