A
middle aged woman, Ene Edem Okon, has been arrested by the police
for allegedly inflicting bodily harm and tying her 11-year-old daughter,
Queeneth Ene Edem, hands and legs for being wayward. She was arrested
when Queeneth appeared in her school, Government Primary School, Akim, with
multiple wounds on her chest, stomach and buttocks prompting the school
authorities to report the matter to the police at the Akim Police Station.
The girl narrated to Sunday
Vanguard that, on February 17, she left home at Eneyo village
in Akpabuyo Local Government Area for the Maternity Junction
Settlement, some four kilometers away from home, to meet her cousin, one Blessing,
but did not return home. “We were waiting for Blessing’s friend from whom she
wanted to collect something but she delayed in coming and we waited till night
and, because we were afraid of going back home, we slept in an
uncompleted building at the Maternity Junction”, she said.
The 11-year-old said the next day, one of her friends saw her at the Maternity Junction and told her that her mother was looking for her with a machete after which she became afraid to go back home. “We stayed on the road near our house and were breaking kernel to eat when my mother sent somebody to come and catch us. That person came pretending to play with us but suddenly grabbed me and dragged me to my mother”.
The mother, angry, allegedly got
hold of her and used a rod to hit her all over her body, thus leaving her
with severe wounds. “She also put the kitchen knife in the fire she was cooking
and when it was hot, she placed it on my buttocks”, the girl stated.
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