Jethro Ibileke/Benin
A Benin-based housewife Tricia Oterneghoro has bathed her 13-year old daughter, Joyce Emmanuel, with hot soup for allegedly sleeping in a neighbour’s room.
The incident occurred at 9, James Watt Street, New Benin area, in Benin.
The soup burnt the girl’s chest.
According to a report monitored on a local television station, residents in the area rushed to the scene of the incident to administer first aid on the victim.
Some of them told the reporter that they had cautioned the victim’s mother on several occasions to stop maltreating her daughter but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
According to one of the neighbours, “A woman in her normal sense will not do this to her daughter. I have warned her not to beat the girl again. Her father called yesterday and the girl said she was interested in going to nursing school.”
Narrating her ordeal,…
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