Aunt inserts hot ointment into girl’s vagina for bed wetting

The Police in Lagos State have arrested a female security guard for almost beating a 10-year-old girl to death for bed wetting and inserting hot ointment into her private.

Police investigations have since revealed that the little girl is niece to the woman who used a big stick to inflict injuries on her body.

The victim had also revealed that suspect allegedly bit her with teeth, inserted hot ointment into her private part and used stick on her body.

 

The suspect said that she never meant to hurt the girl, but that she was angry with her for bed-wetting

It was gathered that the girl was secretly taken to several hospitals, but was rejected because of her critical condition. Apparently, many of the hospitals feared she might not survive.

She was later referred to the Military Hospital, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

Police became involved in the matter after a shocked Nigerian, who saw the severe injuries on the body of the girl, alerted police and a nongovernmental organisation to come to the victim’s aid.

When police went to the hospital, they found the victim swollen face and hands.

Police spokesperson, DSP Ngozi Braide, said the suspect, a 27-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly inflicting injuries on the 10-year-old girl over an alleged bed-wetting offence.

Braide said that the suspect, who claimed to work with a private security company in Lagos, beat up the victim with stick and inflicted different injuries on the body of the girl.

Braide added: “On February, 29, police at Onikan Division got information that a little girl was in one hospital in a critical condition. The officers went there and found the victim with her face and hands swollen as a result of beating.

“An NGO, the Hands that Cares was also invited into the case by a good Nigerian. The NGO has taken over the case with a view to settle the hospital bills, while calling for prosecution of the suspect.

“The State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti-Yaba had investigated the case and the suspect will be charge to court. The legal department of the SCID would advise us on the offence she will be charge with.”

According to the police spokesperson, the suspect would be prosecuted in collaboration with the NGO.

The National Coordinator of the Hands that Cares, Mrs. Jacinta Nworie said that the suspect was a younger sister to the victim’s father.

Nworie explained that the suspect allegedly collected the girl from her father in Kogi State under the guise that she would carter for her in Lagos.

Nworie said: “The condition we met the girl in the hospital was so bad. The victim told us that the suspect allegedly beat her with tooth, inserted hot ointment into her private part and use stick on her body. We met a man who claimed to be her father, pleading that the suspect should be released as it was a family matter, but we are not so sure he is the father.  We will release the girl to him if he can provide evidence to his relationship with the girl.”