Aww! Woman Pours Hot Water On 12-Year-Old Housemaid

The police have arraigned one Mrs. Bethelyn
Falade for allegedly torturing her housemaid with
hot water.Sunday-360×284
The 27-year-old woman was said to have poured
the hot water on the girl, Chinecherem Sunday, as
punishment for her stubbornness.
The police said the hot water inflicted wounds on
her chest in the process.
It was gathered that Falade's act was triggered by
her missing laptop which the housemaid said was
taken by her brother-in-law, identified simply as
Lekan, while she was not around.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman faulted
Sunday's explanation, saying that the housemaid
ought to have notified her before she inquired of
the laptop.
Police said the Abia State-born Falade, in a burst of
anger, grabbed a kettle on the gas cooker and
poured it on the girl.
It was said that Falade's neighbours on Church
Street, Powerline, in the Ijaiye-Ojokoro area of
Lagos, alerted a human rights group to the
incident, having sighted the victim's burnt chest.
The group, it was learnt, reported the case to the
police who eventually arrested Falade.
Falade appeared before a Magistrate's Court sitting
at Ojokoro in the Ifako-IJaiye area of the state on
two counts of maltreatment and assault.
The prosecutor, Lugard Ahonle, said the charges, to
which the accused pleaded not guilty, were
contrary to and punishable under sections 135 and
171 Vol.44 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of
Nigeria, 2011.
The counts read, "That you, Bethelyn Falade, of
Church Street, off Cole Street, Powerline, Ijaiye-
Ojokoro, Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District,
did unlawfully and indecently maltreat one
Chinecherem Sunday, 12 years, by pouring hot
water on her body on August 31, 2014 at about
11pm.
"That you, of the above address, in the
aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully
assault one Chinecherem Sunday by constantly
beating her up."
After the defence counsel pleaded with the court
that his client be granted bail in liberal terms, the
magistrate, Mrs. T. Akani, admitted him to bail in
the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in the like
sum.

Akani added that "The sureties must be gainfully
employed, present three years of tax payment and
their residential addresses must be verified by the
prosecutor."
The matter was adjourned till November 17, 2014
for mention.

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