A mother is in anguish after her rival tortured her 5-year-old daughter by inserting a hot iron rod into her private part. According to the police, the child’s crime was urinating on her bed during sleep.

Aisha Muhammed, an 18-year-old housewife and second wife of the victim’s father, has been arrested by the police for assaulting her young stepdaughter.

According to police reports, this unfortunate incident happened in Adamawa in the Mubi South local government area, Nigeria. DSP Suleiman Nguroje, spokesperson of the State Police Command, in a statement, said the suspect was arrested on Thursday, July 1, after the victim’s mother and her lawyer reported the case.

The statement reads; The Adamawa State police command on 01/7/2021 apprehended an 18-year-old female suspect for torturing and maltreating her 5-year-old stepdaughter.

The suspect, Aisha Mohammed, a resident of Wuro Patuji village- Mubi South Local Government Area, took advantage of the baby. Following the divorce of her mother that brought her under the care and custody of her stepmother.

Investigation reveals the suspect, being the second wife to the victim’s father, committed the offence by using hot iron (rod). To torture and inflict injury on the private parts of the baby because she discharged urine on her bed.

The wicked stepmother was arrested by the police in Mubi South Local Government Area following a report received from Aisha Abdullahi (mother of the victim) and Barrister Khadija Nasir, a female lawyer.

source: Yabaleftonline.ng