Man accused of sexually abusing 12-year-old maid

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called on the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, to order investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl at the Mazamaza area.
The girl, simply identified as Love, was said to have been sexually abused by one Anyanwu who allegedly forcefully had carnal knowledge of her inside his bedroom, causing her severe bruises.
The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), which is the forefront of efforts to get justice for Love, urged Manko to investigate and prosecute Anyanwu. It was gathered that the girl was a housemaid to Anyanwu’s aged mother.
Love was introduced to Anyanwu’s sister, Maurine, a banker, who took the girl to her mother as a maid. Love had been living with the old woman together with Anyanwu’s family in a three bed-room flat since January 2014.
The child, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs Ijeoma Joseph, who resides at Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, informed NOPRIN that Anyanwu’s wife had gone to work and while she was busy washing plates in the house, the man invited her to his bedroom, supposedly to help him read out a message on his phone.

Love reportedly told NOPRIN: “I went to answer him in the room and suddenly, Uncle grabbed me and removed my pant and raped me.”
According to the girl, her screams attracted Mama’s attention, who asked where she was and why she was crying, but Anyanwu did not allow the girl to answer.
He told his mother not to worry, insisting there was no problem. “Love said when Anyanwu wanted to rape her the second time, she struggled and managed to escape and ran out of the house.
She ran to a nearby church where she met one woman. She remained in the church and joined them in the all-night vigil that Friday till the next day. “The following morning, Saturday, she wanted to go home but was afraid.
While she was sitting down somewhere by the roadside, one ‘Uncle Ugo’, the landlord of the house where she was sexually abused, saw her and took her back home,” NOPRIN’s National Coordinator, Okechukwu Nwanguma, said. Love said that Anyanwu’s sister, whose name she did not know, came to the house and beat her up ‘for running away from the house’.
The said sister later called Mrs Joseph, Love’s aunt, and informed her that Love ran away from the house and that she wanted her to come and take her since she was the one that brought her to Maurine. Joseph and Maurine agreed and Love was returned to her. Maurine claimed that Love was ‘wasting food’.
It was later when Love’s aunt began to question her on her reason for running away from the house that she disclosed that Anyanwu sexually abused her.
Upon examining Love, her aunt confirmed that her private part had been seriously bruised and was dripping with foul smelling liquid substance.