Enugu couple sentenced to 13 years in prison for using hot iron on 10-year-old maid, drilling nail into her head and inserting pepper in her private part
Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of an Enugu State High Court has sentenced an employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria Jude Ozuogu and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu to 13 years imprisonment for child abuse. The state police had in July 2020 arrested the couple for maltreating their 10-year-old maid, Nneoma Nnadi. Neighbours alleged that the couple subjected the victim to serious torture after they alleged she caused their baby to fall to the ground at their home in Aku in the Igbo-Etiti Local government area of the state. Nnadi was said to have carried her mistress' little baby to pamper her to sleep around midnight when the baby mistakenly fell to the ground. Though there was no physical or internal injury suffered by the baby, the couple allegedly descended heavily on the girl over the incident by burning her skin with a hot pressing iron and also drilling a nail into her head. They allegedly inserted pepper into the little girl's vagina and locked her up in the toil...