A 29 year old Lagos woman has been arrested after she brutally tortured and inflicted injuries on her stepchildren – 10-year-old girl, Vera, and her younger sister, Favour, five.

The woman, Chidima Nnachi, reportedly beat up Vera, rubbed pepper on her eyes and burned her back with a hot knife because Vera, a primary four pupil of Ola Olu Montessori School, went to play after returning from the school on February 7, 2018.

Chidima Nnachi also reportedly injured 5-year-old Favour on the forehead and inserted pepper in her eyes for allegedly soiling her body.

The family, including Nnachi’s husband, live at Aso Rock Street, Brucknor Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos State.

While the children were rescued and taken into protective custody by the Office of the Public Defender of the state Ministry of Justice, Nnachi was arrested by the police from the Ejigbo division.

Punch Metro reports that the children’s mother died in 2012 after she gave birth to Favour.

A neighbour, identified simply as Olajide, was said to have reported the case at the Ejigbo Police Division and the suspect was apprehended.

Olajide told the police that Nnachi had been maltreating the children for a long time, adding that Vera’s groans on that day prompted her to make a report.

He said:

“It was a neigbour who called my attention to the maltreatment of the children by their stepmother. I witnessed the torture of the girl (Vera) by her stepmother. She beat her for about three hours on that day. I was sad and informed the community development association chairman who advised that that we should report the case to the police.”

Vera said she had returned from her school – some distance away from the house – on the day with Favour, but returned to the school premises to play.

She said when she returned home around 3.30pm, she met her stepmother, who beat her up with a stick for playing on the street.

The girl added that Nnachi put a knife in a burning liquefied petroleum gas (cooking gas) for some minutes and pressed it on her back.

She said,

“On Wednesday, February 7, after the school closed, I went back to the school compound to play and came back home around 3.30pm. When my stepmother returned from her shop in Isheri Osun, she asked me why I left home to play on the street. I told her that I was playing at the school compound, but she said I was lying.

“She started beating me. She put on the cooking gas and placed a knife on fire. She put pepper in my eyes and I could not see again. She then pressed the hot knife on my back. I cried and felt pains.

“The following day, my younger sister woke up in the morning with faeces on her body. She (Nnachi) beat her and put pepper in her eyes too. Our father had travelled when the incidents happened.”

The suspect, a mother of one, in her statement to the police reportedly confessed to assaulting Vera, adding that she did not treat her injuries.

She said:

“Favour and Vera have been living with me since 2014 when I got married to their father. I was told their mother died in 2012 after Favour’s birth. On February 7 around 3pm, I came back from my shop in Isheri Osun and met only Favour and my two-year-old child, Dominion, at home.

“I checked everywhere, but did not see Vera. When she later came back, I asked her where she went to. She said she went to another street. As I wanted to beat her, she ran away. Her school proprietress brought her home.

When the proprietress left, I put fresh pepper in her eyes and pressed a hot knife on her back several times. Vera was the one who took care of her sister and my son when I had gone to the shop.”

A police prosecutor, Sergeant Koti Aondohemba, brought the defendant before an Ogba Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on five counts of assault.

Aondohemba told the court that the offences contravened sections 10(b)(c)(d) of the Child Rights Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.

The charges read in part:

“That you, Chidima Nnachi, on February 7, 2018 around 3.30pm, on Aso Rock Street, Brucknor Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did inflict injuries on one Vera, 10 years old, by burning her back with a hot kitchen knife and caused her bodily harm.

“That you, Chidima Nnachi, did unlawfully assault one Favour, five years old, by flogging her all over her body and inflicting injuries on her back and face, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 10(c) of the Child Rights Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and elected summary trial.

The presiding magistrate, Mr. A.O. Ogbe, granted her bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till March 5, 2018.

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lalasticlala

Oh God what are u waiting for? Where were you when she was hurting them?

Children are easy pickings. If their fathers or stepfathers are not raping them, their stepmothers are tutoring and killing them. It is hard being a child. If them tell am to release her to her mom he will say no. If they do release her, mom will sell her off to become a house help.

Children need protection now more than ever

let it nt be wel with the wicked.and men at this point tend to support barbaric act.the man na woman wrapper.

Thank you Mr olajide for reporting though not on time.

And the husband was watching her killing this children without doing anything?

Some men are just men for mouth.

Our good God, give every parents the number of children that they can take of. Amen.

Uwa sef

She should spend some time in jail with hard labour.How do you maltreat children like this?

Heartless people every where

All these steps, dem swear for dem? They are always in the news for the wrong reasons. They are always wicked, no human feelings whatsoever. How can someone feel so convenient inflicting pain on a child? I mean that's gross. N she is also a mother ooo. She should be treated same way, simple.

OMG!this is wickedness,she shld be put behind bar for a very long period of time,she is evil and deserves no pity for doing this.

If to say her husband tear am dirty slap now, this thread go don reach 20 pages. Some ladies are very abusive but they can't take it. That woman should be jailed.

She should be checked thoroughly she must be from Lybia

D woman should be given exactly the same treatment or it will never be balanced

Some people are so heartless. Jeezzzzz

My God!!! what the hell is all of these??

This is barbaric height of wickedness, these culprits shld be given at least a taste of what they dished before legal actions . My opinion

Jisos! Haaaa! Olorun onike! Hian! It is well

Chai what's up with my country
I just read a similar news about Abakaliki girl with her stupid madam and here is another stupid madam doing same thing to another girl.This one is a step mother vs step children sef
Wallahi if a woman did this to my daughter I will disfigure her
I think they should all get life sentence

hisgrace090:
Thank you Mr olajide for reporting though not on time.

And the husband was watching her killing this children without doing anything?

Some men are just men for mouth.

The husband wasn't around when the incident happened.

Haba

I blame the husband

These people are very wicked creature. Spit.

This is evil

JESUS PLEASE COME QUICKLY...

So, what's the difference between this woman and bokoharam....

Most Nigerian Women are heartless. This woman need to be stone to death.

women should please loosen up and stop been stone hearted.. this woman should be sentenced for life