Miracle left and her wicked aunt
A housewife, Grace Monday has been arrested by the police for torturing her three-year-old niece, Miracle Peter, to coma.
According to reports from the woman's neighbours, Miracle Peter was flogged mercilessly for many hours at the woman's Ireodun, Agege home before her head was slammed against a wall forcing the toddler to faint because she was fond of defecating in the room.
She was rushed to a private hospital where her condition deteriorated before they were transferred to the intensive care unit of the state general hospital.
Grace Monday who has been married for seven years without a child had traveled to Kaduna in July, 2015 begging his elder brother allow her take Miracle Peter.
Monday’s neighbour, Adijat Fatai, said she had warned her on several occasions to stop flogging the child.
She said, “Miracle (Peter) always defecated all over the house. I called Grace and advised her to be patient with the little girl because it could be that God was using the girl to test her patience.
“Sometime in October, I saw her cleaning the child up after she had defecated; she was beating her as well. I warned her three different times to stop flogging her because it was getting excessive. She didn’t listen to me and I immediately suspected she was under a spell.
“I told her husband to caution her but he told me Miracle’s father instructed them to beat her till she stopped purging. I left them and went inside my room. It was the following morning she came to call me that the girl had fainted.”
The matter was reported by the landlord of the house, Fatai Alimi at the Isokoko Police Division. He alleged that Monday had inflicted several injuries on the body of the victim, adding that she slammed Peter’s head against the wall.
“We rushed her to a private hospital and I had to borrow money for her to be admitted and treated because the hospital management said we must deposit some money. She spent three days at the hospital. When they could no longer handle it, they referred her to a general hospital,” he added.
Alimi, who said Peter was placed on oxygen, added that she was incapacitated by the torture.
But the Divisional Police Officer, Isokoko Police Division, Badmos Dolapo, said she was in tears after seeing the victim.
“In all my years in the police force, I have never cried. But seeing the damage that had been done to this child, I could not hold back tears; I wept like a baby. She had been brutalised. We will not leave any stone unturned in this case,” she said.
It can be authoritatively revealed that the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender had taken custody of the victim. The Public Relations Officer of the OPD, Adeoba Adeniji-Adele, who spoke for the Director of the agency, Mrs. Omotola Rotimi, said the victim could no longer walk.
He said the agency was awaiting the doctor’s report on the case.
“We want members of the public to be prompt in reporting cases of abuse like this. It is mandatory under the law to report child abuse and failure to do that now attracts imprisonment of about two years. We all must join hands to end this menace in our society,” he added.