Woman Sits 14-Year-Old Girl On Hotplate For Bed-Wetting

The Dutsen Alhaji Police Division of the Federal Capital Territory
Police Command, Abuja, has arrested a woman, Mrs. Roseline Uzoamaka,
for allegedly brutalising her 14-year-old relative, identified simply
as Sarah, because she was bed-wetting.

PUNCH correspondent learnt that Uzoamaka allegedly forced the teenager
to sit on a burning electric cooker until the girl sustained severe
burns in her private parts as a punishment for urinating on the bed.

According to PUNCH reports, the incident occurred last Saturday,
August 23, at the family's residence in Gwarimpa, Abuja.
Sarah, it was gathered, was Uzoamaka's sister-in-law, being a younger
sister to her husband.

PUNCH correspondent learnt that on the morning, the woman had scolded
the girl for continuously bedwetting, and asked her to sit on the
burning stove until her genitals were cooked by the heat.

It was gathered that Uzoamaka confessed in her statement to the police
that she did this because some friends had advised her that the way to
make her bedwetting sister-in-law recover from the problem was to make
her sit on a hot stove.

After the girl's privates were affected by the heat, she was said to
have been rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment the same day. The
girl, our correspondent learnt, was still recuperating in the
hospital.

The Abuja Police Command Public Relations Officer, Altine Daniel,
confirmed the arrest to our correspondent on the telephone.
She added that because of its severity, the case had been transferred
to the FCT Criminal Investigation Department.

She said, "Yes, the woman has been arrested. She told the police that
the reason she did that was because the girl was bedwetting.

"She said it was some of her friends who advised her to try that as a
solution. The girl is related to her husband. She is not her
housemaid.

"The case has been transferred from the division to the Criminal
Investigation Department for further investigation."

PUNCH