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By Dedeigbo Ayodeji
Facts have emerged how a housewife, Mrs. Aisha Muhammed, allegedly inserted hot iron into the private part of her 5-year old step daughter and inflicted injuries on her for urinating on her bed.
Town Crier News Nigeria reports that the incident happened at Mubi in Adamawa State, where they reside
Mrs. Aisha was said to be the second wife as the mother of the girl was sent away by her husband, which gave her the opportunity to commit such dastardly act on the innocent girl.
She reportedly slept with the girl and woke up in the morning to realise that she had urinated on the bed. She then put an iron into the fire and when it was hot, she inserted it inside her private part.
The suspect, Aisha Muhammed has been arrested and detained by the Police operatives from the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly torturing and maltreating the girl.
This was confirmed by the State Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who said the Commissioner of Police has ordered full investigation over the matter.
He said, the suspect, Aisha Muhammed, a resident of Wuro Patuji village, Mubi South Local Government area in Adamawa State, took advantage of the girl following the divorce of her mother, which brought the girl under her care and custody as step mother.
He said detectives investigation has revealed that the suspect, being the second wife to the victim’s father, committed the offence by using hot iron, tortured and inflicted injury on the girl’s private part because she urinated on her bed.
“The wicked step mother was arrested by the Police in Mubi South Local Government following report received from Aisha Abdullahi (mother of the victim) and Barrister Khadija Nasir a female Lawyer.”
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Aliyu Adamu Alhaji, while commending FIDA and Police for exposing and making it impossible for criminal of such to escape justice, ordered discreet investigations be conducted as the victim is under medical attention.
Meanwhile, as part of efforts at tackling criminal activities and other related offences in the state, the CP has deployed officers of the family unit/Human right section to go after anyone committing such heinous crimes and apprehend them.
He said the Police boss has equally called on people to always report people of suspicious character around their neighborhoods to Police.
