From Vanguard
A middle aged woman simply
identified as madam Agnes is currently being detained at the State Criminal
Investigations Department, SCID Panti, for allegedly beating an 11-year-old
child that was staying with her to death.
The deceased identified as
Angelina, was reportedly taken from her parents in far away Ogoja, Cross River
state by Agnes, with a promise to send her to school, when she was barely four
years old. Angelina, grew up calling her guardian mother, apparently unaware
she was not her biological mother.
But things as gathered, fell apart
for late Angelina after she turned 6, as
she was reportedly made to carry out overwhelming house chores. Initial rebuff
of such attitude from madam Rose who crime Alert learnt is related to
Angelina’s mother, by neighbour was reportedly greeted with an outburst.
The dehumanising treatment on
Angelina reached its peak last Friday, as she was reportedly beaten to death by
her madam, for failure to carry out
chores as instructed.
Investigation by Crime Alert
revealed that on that fateful day, at about 5pm, Madam Agnes returned home
screaming at the little girl whom neighbours said was not feeling too well.
Madam Agnes reportedly dragged Angelina into her apartment located on 75 Barracks
lllane, Ajegunle and started beating her. The helpless girl was said to have
shouted for help. But none was forth coming. Then, all of a sudden she seized
crying.
Neighbours later became
apprehensive after they sighted madam Agnes rush out of her room to a medicine
store opposite the building. She reportedly came back with a nurse who went
inside with her and rushed out again to get something.
At this point, a neighbour told
Crime Alert during a visit at the building yesterday that “ we suspected all
was not well. When the nurse came out , we asked what the problem was and she
told us that Angelina had fainted. We
all rushed inside, only to behold Angelina’s lifeless body on the ground.
On further observation, we
discovered a pestle by the side with
blood stain and we concluded she could have used it on Angelina”.
Another neighbour who also spoke on
condition of anonymity said, “ We are not surprised at Angelina’s demise
because madam Agnes had always threatened. At the slightest provocation, she
would beat her with any object at her disposal. At times she would smash bottle
on her head and at other times, she would use a stool on her. At a point we got
angry but there was nothing we could do to alert Angelina’s biological
parents”.
Asked why none of them bothered to
report the abuse on Angelina to the Police, another neighbour replied, “
Police? You want madam Agnes to fight you? Even if you attempt to rescue
Angelina from her grip whenever she was being beaten, Agnes
would fight you and ask if you
were her relative.
At a point, she resorted to locking
the doors whenever she wanted to beat the girl, in order to prevent anyone from
coming to her rescue”.
Everyone who spoke with Crime Alert
described the late Angelina as a dutiful girl who never complained while
carrying out any of the house chores. At times she reportedly missed schools in
order to finish the chores before the arrival of her guardian. Most times
neighbours said she would be made to finish the chores before taking her first meal either at
noon or evening.
“Saturdays were the most hectic for
the little girl as she would be made to wash her guardians clothes and those of
her two grown children”.
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