Couple, Mr Chigozie Ezeofor and Mrs. Idioms Ezeofor have found themselves in police cell after the wife bathed their maid with hot water alleging she had been sleeping with her husband.
The 19-year-old maid, Blessing, is now undergoing intensive treatment at a Lagos hospital, Punch reported.
The incidence which happened at AuntyToyin Street, Kodeibo Estate, Isheri Oshun area of Lagos State, on Sunday afternoon was as a result of the husband caressing the maid which the wife saw as she returned from trip unannounced.
The Ezeofors and Blessing all hail from Imo State, but since the Maid was hired six months ago she has being sexually assaulted by Chigozie and his wife Isioma assaulted her physically for seducing her husband.
On that fateful day, she was alleged to have beaten the maid to a pulp before pouring hot water on her.
A Good Samaritan was said to have alerted policemen in the area to the incident, leading to the arrest of the couple.
The victim was subsequently taken to a hospital for treatment.
A police source said, “Since she arrived at their house, it had been one assault after another. According to the victim, when she arrived, the man pretended to be interested in her welfare and asked if she was a virgin. She said when she told him that she was a virgin, he started touching her at every opportunity.
“The girl said one day, he attempted to have sex with her, and when he saw that penetration was difficult, he started having anal sex with her. The girl said each time he tried to do it, she would feel pains. She said the man would sometimes keep at it until she screamed and he would quickly withdraw.
“The victim told us that while the sexual assault persisted, she was helpless because she had nowhere to run to. She was a victim of trafficking. Her guardian had handed her over to the family and her salary was what they were using to send her to school. She is in Junior Secondary School three.”
The source said the woman had left the girl and her husband at home on Sunday, December 17, and came back earlier than planned when she met the husband caressing Blessing.
“The woman claimed that when she saw the husband with Blessing, she became angry and beat her up before pouring hot water on her,” the source added.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, confirmed the incident, adding that the campaign of the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, against abuse of the girl child, women and the juvenile, was yielding fruit.
Oti, a Superintendent of Police, said the couple were in police custody and would be charged with trafficking and sexual assault at the end of investigations.
He said, “The case was reported at one of our divisions. The victim said she had suffered terribly in the hands of the couple, who delighted in dehumanising her regularly. She further revealed that her mistress, Isioma Ezeofor, beat her up at the slightest provocation, while her husband, Chigozie Ezeofor, sneaked up to her whenever his wife was away.
“The exploitation came to a head when Mrs. Isioma Ezeofor’s temper got the better of her and thus she emptied a kettle of hot water on the poor girl, scalding her in the process. Both husband and wife are being interrogated at the gender section of the Lagos State Police Command and would be charged to court at the end of investigation.”
The Commissioner of Police was reported to be encouraged with increasing numbers of victims reporting cases of domestic violence amend sexual abuses.
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