Evil Woman pours hot water on 12-year-old maid, burns chest

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One Mrs. Bethelyn Falade, 27, who resides on Church Street, Powerline, in the Ijaiye-Ojokoro area of Lagos, has been arrested and is currently facing charges for assaulting and torturing her housemaid, Chinecherem Sunday with hot water.

Mrs Falade allegedly carried out the act as punishment for her stubbornness.

Trouble began when Falade enquired of her missing laptop which the housemaid said was taken by her brother-in-law, identified simply as Lekan, while she was not around.

Not satisfied with the maid’s explanation, Falade got angry and blamed her (the maid) for not notifying her before the laptop was taken away.


In anger, she grabbed a kettle on the gas cooker and poured it on the girl, inflicting wounds on her chest in the process.

Appearing before a Magistrate’s Court sitting at Ojokoro in the Ifako-IJaiye area of the state on two counts of maltreatment and assault, Falade  however pleaded not guilty.

The defence counsel pleaded with the court that his client be granted bail in liberal terms, the magistrate, Mrs. T. Akani, admitted him to bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in the like sum.

The matter was adjourned till November 17, 2014 for mention.