A housemaid has disappeared with two toddlers she was employed to take care, six days after she was engaged by the family.
The victims are identified as one-year-old Michael and three-year-old Rafael.
The maid, identified simply as Juliet, hails from Osun State. Juliet allegedly left home with the boys about 6pm on Sunday when their grandmother and nurse had gone to bed.
The incident occurred at Isheri Magodo Estate in Lagos State. The parents of the boys were also said to have gone out.
They returned to discover that the maid had disappeared. Attempts to call her were abortive as her phone was switched off.
The agency where Juliet was hired is ‘Olamide Employment Agency,’ found on an online marketing website, according to the children’s mother, Mrs Jite Escharegharah. Escharegharah said that attempts to call the agency had also not been fruitful, as its phone number was also switched off.
She said: “We have reported to different law enforcement agencies to help us find my children. We have also reported to the police at Isheri Police Station. We are also trying to get the video footage from our CCTV. “We employed the maid six days ago.
We hired her from an agency that advertised on OLX. We do not know where she has taken our children to. The agency’s office is at Epe.
We went to Epe to pick her.” Escharegharah, who said she was still in shock and did not find it easy talking about the disappearance of her children, said: “My husband’s birthday was on Sunday. We decided to have dinner. We left home between 6 and 8:30pm yesterday (Sunday).
We left our two children, Raphael and Michael, with the maid. Their grandma was around too. Surprisingly, when we came back, our maid had run away with our two children.” Escharegharah said she could not understand why the girl took her kids, adding that she never treated the girl badly. “In fact, we treated her like a family member,” she added.
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