How Teacher Allegedly Brutalized 10-Year- Old Boy In Benue | PHOTOS
Faith Ukanwa
Jan 18, 2022
A school teacher identified as Chioma Johnson, have been arrested for allegedly brutalizing a 10-year-old boy over a pot of soup in Makurdi, Benue State.
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According to report, the victim who has allegedly been maltreated for 3 years, was brought from the teacher's husbands village to live with the couple at their residence on Zakibiam Street in the Wadata area of Makurdi.
The suspect according to a Human rights activist, Ukan Kurugh, was handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
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Kurugh wrote on his page:
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A 10 years old male child has been rescued from his Maltreating guardian, one Mrs. Chioma Johnson, popularly known as mama Ifeoma, living at off Zakibiam street, Wadata area in Makurdi.
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Today, after a concerned resident of the area brought her henious acts to my attention, I quickly called the NAPTIP Commandant, Mrs. Gloria Bai, and she was arrested.
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According to my source: Mrs Chioma who is a private school teacher has maltreated and abused this little child for about 3 years now.
The boy is a son of a relative from her husband village, and he has no one to take care of him in the village. That is why the woman is maltreating him.
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"She denied the boy of an education. While her four biological children attended school, this child is locked up inside the house.
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"If one takes a casual glance on this child, one can easily see the gravity of the body injuries she has inflicted on him. And how malnourished he looks, as a result of not been fed most time.
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"You can see the scars on his buttocks and on his head as a result of the hot leather she poured on him. She used razor to scrape the boys head before pouring the hot leather on him, so that he will get to feel the pain more.
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"She will heat her kitchen knife and use it to burn the skin of this child.
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"When we try to intervene, she refused to stop unleashing mayhem on the child. She claims the boy stole soup from the pot, and she will punish him as much as she wants, and nobody can stop her.
"The child never leaves the house, when ever she and her children go out, they lock up the boy in the house; he will stay at the window and beg passerbys for water and food"
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Her husband, is fully aware of the situation, and does nothing to stop it. Although he wasn't at home when we arrived to make an arrest, but a call was put across to him to come to the Makurdi NAPTIP Office.
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The woman and the child is now in the custody of NAPTIP, for the law to take its due course.
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— Faith Ukanwa