A housewife, Bose Ogedengbe, has been arrested by the police
for allegedly brutalising her ward, Favour, at their house on
Bush Street, in the Anthony Village area of Lagos State. Bose
and Favour are from Akoko Edo in Edo State.
The victim’s father, a farmer, had reportedly handed her over to
Bose’s husband, a relation, a year ago.
The woman reportedly brutalised the Junior Secondary School
two pupil of Mende Junior High School for allegedly taunting her
about her childlessness. The 13-year-old was rescued by
residents of Ajose Street, Mende, Maryland, where she ran to.
One of those who rescued her, Wasiu Ismail, an aluminium
fabricator, said the victim was found around 6.30am on Friday
on the street.
He said, “Around 6.30am on Friday, an elderly man who lives on
this street brought the girl. He said he saw her with blood all
over her body. “When I queried her, she said her guardian’s wife
maltreated her every day and it was when it became unbearable
that she decided to run away from the house.”
Ismail said when the victim was queried on the reason for her
being beaten, she claimed that she had washed some clothes the
previous day.According to him, the 13 year-old said she had
gone to remove the clothes from the line but some of them had
yet to dry up.Bose, on discovering that
some of the clothes were still wet, allegedly became angry and
brutalised the victim.
“I asked if she wanted to go
back, but she said she could not because the woman, who she
called her aunt, would kill her,” he added. Bose later arrived on
the street in a car with some men and attempted to take the
victim away, but was resisted by the residents.
The guardian was alleged to have further brought a policeman
from the Anthony division, where she had reported a case of a
missing person.
A student, Suleiman Habeeb, said they refused to release the
teenager because
they feared she might be returned to the guardian.He said, “He
said, “Her version of the story was a bit different. She said the
girl abused her that she was a witch and that was why she had
not conceived.

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