IF anyone had told Blessing Ikhumhi that Okosun Cyril, the man she once loved, would turn around and bath her with acid, she would not have believed it.

Neighbours and friends used to see the duo as Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. But they were wrong.

Even Blessing once saw him as “the best thing that could ever happen to her,” because she never believed the words of William Shakespeare, which asserts that, “there are daggers in men’s smile.”

Their romance turned sour with tragic consequence for Blessing, a 23-year-old student of Edo State School of Health Technology. If she would ever regain her sight she would see all men as “monsters” because she has seen “hell” in the last three months as a patient at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City.

Doctors in the hospital believe she may never see again except she is flown to a specialist hospital in India, where her sight could be restored.

Blessing’s story is a sad one. Her ordeal began when she told his boyfriend, who is now in police custody in Benin, that she was no longer interested in what she described as “uninspiring relationship.”

The news did not go down well with him. He visited her house and asked for a talk.

The victim had gone outside to meet with the man whom she thought might have come to settle with her and probably, persuade her to continue in the relationship, but to Blessing’s shock, she was bathed with acid.

From that fateful day, she has seized to see and has been on admission at the UBTH.

“He was my boyfriend and we had arguments in February. He beat me to the extent that I was not able to go to school for three days. I told him I was no longer interested in the relationship. He later tried to forcibly take my telephone, but I refused to give it to him. I told him he was not the one who bought it for me.”

“On March 23, he called and asked me to meet him in front of our house. I refused initially, but he insisted, so I came out. He asked: “Do you mean you don’t want me again?” I said: “No! I was no more interested in the relationship. And immediately, he poured the acid on my face. Since that day, I have been on admission at the UBTH and the doctors say I might not see again except I am flown to India where my eyes could be restored. “

She noted that Cyril was the last person she expected to treat her so badly.

“I never knew he would have the heart to pour acid on me. I made a mistake. I have learnt the biggest lesson of my life. My prayer now is that God should touch kind-hearted Nigerians to come to my aide so that I would be able to get treatment abroad, since my parents cannot afford it.” Ikhumhi, a native of Fugar, Etsako Local Council of Edo State, has pleaded with public-spirited Nigerians to come to her aid.

Domestic violence has been on the increase nowadays as aggrieved lovers have been pouring acid on their estranged partners.

In March 2010, Oluwatoyin Safiu Morufu, from Oyo State, was reportedly bathed with acid by his wife of over 16 years, Uloma Beatrice, from Abia State.

In 2011, a suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate‘s Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31.

Also, a 35-year-old man, Ndubisi Okoro in 2011 allegedly bathed his wife, Anthonia, with acid. He was arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, charged with attempted murder.

In November 10, 2012, a jilted man in Ikotun, an outskirt of Lagos, bathed his wife with acid. Men of Ikotun Police Division immediately arrested him. The list keeps rising everyday as acid bath has become a weapon of revenge.

http://ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122302:man-bathes-girlfriend-with-acid&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

Beasts in human cloak of flesh.

Animals in human skin

This means of bestiality seems to be takign solid root now alongside se.xual assault

However No gender has a monopoly of violence and acid

MAYOWAAK:
Domestic violence has been on the increase nowadays as aggrieved lovers have been pouring acid on their estranged partners.

In March 2010, Oluwatoyin Safiu Morufu, from Oyo State, was reportedly bathed with acid by his wife of over 16 years, Uloma Beatrice, from Abia State.


In 2011, a suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate‘s Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31.

Also, a 35-year-old man, Ndubisi Okoro in 2011 allegedly bathed his wife, Anthonia, with acid. He was arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, charged with attempted murder.

In November 10, 2012, a jilted man in Ikotun, an outskirt of Lagos, bathed his wife with acid. Men of Ikotun Police Division immediately arrested him. The list keeps rising everyday as acid bath has become a weapon of revenge.

http://ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122302:man-bathes-girlfriend-with-acid&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

Eyaa..

So sad but it seems a common theme is that these acid pouring people sweet talk their victims into meeting them outside to "talk" ...

how many beasts do we have? THEY ARE VERY NUMEROUS TO COUNT! They surface everyday.

Ya Salam. What manner of evil is this? I swear by God, the man should be poured a hydroflouric acid on his head. Since he has the mind to carry out evil, should have the strength to receive it in kind. Is love a must?

This is getting too much women we must be careful who we involve ourselves with if a man shows any violence in the relationship you must stay clear at all cost

Some Men behave like Goats at times,that useless guy should rot in Jail,if girls should Start Pouring acid on guys that have cheated on them,perhaps,90 percent of naija guys will have becm victims

He will never be free from dat custody he is he is a beast not a man, is it by forrce to date u ni, pls gals u av to b careful wen u see an exhibit of voilence in a guyz attitude speak to ur brain as fast as possible dnt use ur hrt cos u may get confused

Where do they get acid to buy to pour on people? Is acid something that is sold in the open market?

Pictures?

It says she needs financial assistance for reconstructive surgery in India. Why don't you guys start a program to raise at least part of the fund.
And I don't want to see any broke ass Arrow casting aspersions on this

The evil that some men do surprises the devil himself

[b]Let me state first, that I do not condone the pouring of acid on her by the Boyfriend. However, for a guy to do such a thing, he must have invested so much into the relationship; and for most people its difficult to let go. I bet he had given her so much. Typical of Nigerian women...I will continue to eat your money, your time, have you suspend your future plans for me, but when I find someone else, I have the right to dump you when and how I want. WOMEN...be careful of who you date. If you don't like a man, say it at the outset and let him go peacefully and happilly; they are other women out there that need him. Don't try to waste his time and money. You wake up one morning you just tell him it's over...what the fu$ck? What do you expect him to do if he has invested so much into you? Even if you must do this, there are slow and deliberate ways to ease yourself from someone you have known for years and you know they love you. Slowly do it and before time, you both will lose attraction and break up. Don't just do it outright...it hurts badly.

WOMEN NEVER LEAVE A RELATIONSHIP UNTIL THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE...BELIEVE ME ON THIS. WOMEN DON'T DO THIS.[/b]

There's one way to resolve an issue as this: Simply pure a bottle of acid on the dude's face like he did to the girl. That would be the best way for him to be truly empathetic. Let him feel the excruciating pain his victim felt. Let him scream like the poor girl screamed. Let him go blind like the girl is about to. Any other punishment than that would be considered injustice to the girl whose life he's ruined.

What is it with pple n nt letting go these days?....

chukxie: There's one way to resolve an issue as this: Simply pure a bottle of acid on the dude's face like he did to the girl. That would be the best way for him to be truly empathetic. Let him feel the excruciating pain his victim felt. Let him scream like the poor girl screamed. Let him go blind like the girl is about to. Any other punishment than that would be considered injustice to the girl whose life he's ruined.

Please don't draw conclusions. Why didn't he pour the acid when they were like "Romeo and Juliet"? Or why didn't she opt out of the relationship when there were like "Romeo and Juliet"? Every human has feeling. Something always necessitate an action.

This one na serious matterz o!

HE'S A BASTARD AND THEY MUST TREAT HIS bleeped UP BIG TIME, TO SHOW AN EXAMPLE FOR THE REMAINING WICKED SOULS.

Brilliance9000: [b]Let me state first, that I do not condone the pouring of acid on her by the Boyfriend. However, for a guy to do such a thing, he must have invested so much into the relationship; and for most people its difficult to let go. I bet he had given her so much. Typical of Nigerian women...I will continue to eat your money, your time, have you suspend your future plans for me, but when I find someone else, I have the right to dump you when and how I want. WOMEN...be careful of who you date. If you don't like a man, say it at the outset and let him go peacefully and happilly; they are other women out there that need him. Don't try to waste his time and money. You wake up one morning you just tell him it's over...what the fu$ck? What do you expect him to do if he has invested so much into you? Even if you must do this, there are slow and deliberate ways to ease yourself from someone you have known for years and you know they love you. Slowly do it and before time, you both will lose attraction and break up. Don't just do it outright...it hurts badly.

WOMEN NEVER LEAVE A RELATIONSHIP UNTIL THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE...BELIEVE ME ON THIS. WOMEN DON'T DO THIS.[/b]

WORD bro...But pouring acid on a fellow human being is just so BAD..You don't pay Evil with Evil.

Brilliance9000: [b]Let me state first, that I do not condone the pouring of acid on her by the Boyfriend. However, for a guy to do such a thing, he must have invested so much into the relationship; and for most people its difficult to let go. I bet he had given her so much. Typical of Nigerian women...I will continue to eat your money, your time, have you suspend your future plans for me, but when I find someone else, I have the right to dump you when and how I want. WOMEN...be careful of who you date. If you don't like a man, say it at the outset and let him go peacefully and happilly; they are other women out there that need him. Don't try to waste his time and money. You wake up one morning you just tell him it's over...what the fu$ck? What do you expect him to do if he has invested so much into you? Even if you must do this, there are slow and deliberate ways to ease yourself from someone you have known for years and you know they love you. Slowly do it and before time, you both will lose attraction and break up. Don't just do it outright...it hurts badly.

WOMEN NEVER LEAVE A RELATIONSHIP UNTIL THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE...BELIEVE ME ON THIS. WOMEN DON'T DO THIS.[/b]

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Why is acid not a controlled substance? Why are the people selling it not getting arrested and their shops closed down

Is it that the price of conc acid is nw as low as d price of a cup of ijebu garri? I think d chemical or chemistry body shld restrict or no who 2b sellin this tins to.. Jst lik some drugs in pharmacy, not all pharmaceutical outlets are allowd 2sell som particular types of drugs nd if u wnt 2buy it 4rm d authorised 1s, u've 2com wit a doc. approved leta(signd nd stamped).. this tins r dangerous 2 human health......

IF anyone had told Blessing Ikhumhi that Okosun Cyril, the man she once loved, would turn around and bath her with acid, she would not have believed it.

Neighbours and friends used to see the duo as Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. But they were wrong.

Even Blessing once saw him as “the best thing that could ever happen to her,” because she never believed the words of William Shakespeare, which asserts that, “there are daggers in men’s smile.”

Their romance turned sour with tragic consequence for Blessing, a 23-year-old student of Edo State School of Health Technology. If she would ever regain her sight she would see all men as “monsters” because she has seen “hell” in the last three months as a patient at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City.

Doctors in the hospital believe she may never see again except she is flown to a specialist hospital in India, where her sight could be restored.

Blessing’s story is a sad one. Her ordeal began when she told his boyfriend, who is now in police custody in Benin, that she was no longer interested in what she described as “uninspiring relationship.”

The news did not go down well with him. He visited her house and asked for a talk.

The victim had gone outside to meet with the man whom she thought might have come to settle with her and probably, persuade her to continue in the relationship, but to Blessing’s shock, she was bathed with acid.

From that fateful day, she has seized to see and has been on admission at the UBTH.

“He was my boyfriend and we had arguments in February. He beat me to the extent that I was not able to go to school for three days. I told him I was no longer interested in the relationship. He later tried to forcibly take my telephone, but I refused to give it to him. I told him he was not the one who bought it for me.”

“On March 23, he called and asked me to meet him in front of our house. I refused initially, but he insisted, so I came out. He asked: “Do you mean you don’t want me again?” I said: “No! I was no more interested in the relationship. And immediately, he poured the acid on my face. Since that day, I have been on admission at the UBTH and the doctors say I might not see again except I am flown to India where my eyes could be restored. “

She noted that Cyril was the last person she expected to treat her so badly.

“I never knew he would have the heart to pour acid on me. I made a mistake. I have learnt the biggest lesson of my life. My prayer now is that God should touch kind-hearted Nigerians to come to my aide so that I would be able to get treatment abroad, since my parents cannot afford it.” Ikhumhi, a native of Fugar, Etsako Local Council of Edo State, has pleaded with public-spirited Nigerians to come to her aid.

Domestic violence has been on the increase nowadays as aggrieved lovers have been pouring acid on their estranged partners.

In March 2010, Oluwatoyin Safiu Morufu, from Oyo State, was reportedly bathed with acid by his wife of over 16 years, Uloma Beatrice, from Abia State.

In 2011, a suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate‘s Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31.

Also, a 35-year-old man, Ndubisi Okoro in 2011 allegedly bathed his wife, Anthonia, with acid. He was arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, charged with attempted murder.

In November 10, 2012, a jilted man in Ikotun, an outskirt of Lagos, bathed his wife with acid. Men of Ikotun Police Division immediately arrested him. The list keeps rising everyday as acid bath has become a weapon of revenge. NaWAOO 'SUCH IS LIFE'

Nna eh, some men are just something else.

chronique: Where do they get acid to buy to pour on people? Is acid something that is sold in the open market?

wonderyn here also..

But for divine intervention,I almost did same some years back, some girls are heartless!

This is why I love the near Middle East even as a Christian. Try this in Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Turkey or Iran and see what becomes of you.
Some crimes do not deserve long jail time.
For all I care he should not return from jail. Die there later or die there NOW!........pleae save the cost of keeping the beast!

chukxie: There's one way to resolve an issue as this: Simply pure a bottle of acid on the dude's face like he did to the girl. That would be the best way for him to be truly empathetic. Let him feel the excruciating pain his victim felt. Let him scream like the poor girl screamed. Let him go blind like the girl is about to. Any other punishment than that would be considered injustice to the girl whose life he's ruined.

Two wrongs don't make a right man!

Well, some people won't learn. Though, i can't jes pin a blame on d victim, but wen we go into friendship wit people who do things with impulse, then shitz are the only thing that happen!

There comes no point in bilivin u can change anybody, hanging on the fallacy dt with time, they will change.
Anybody who gets angry and regrets later is best to be alone. Biliv me