A Housewife, Nneamaka Nwachuku, has allegedly tortured her 11-year-old maid, Margret Joshua, to death on November 11, 2022, after pouring hot oil on parts of her body in Jos, Plateau State Capital
Penpushing reports that, the police has arraigned the accused before a Plateau State High Court in Jos on a three-count suit of culpable homicide, cruelty to person and voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous means against the victim.
The police in the suit told the court that, the accused a resident of the National Institute of Trypanosomiasis (NITR) National Veterinary Research Institute Quarters in Jos used hot groundnut oil and poured it on the buttocks and other parts of the body of the maid.
Penpushing further reports that, the prosecutor told the court that the maid sustained superficial thickness scald burns which led to her death, an action of the accused was considered as callous, and thereby committed an offence
“This was done in order to give effect to your already conceived ill-intention and nefarious intention. That you had knowledge that the death of the deceased is the probable consequence of your ill-conceived intention which is reflected in the callous manner in which you mishandled the deceased. You thereby committed the above offence.
“You also assaulted her by the use of an electric cable beating her frequently and ill-treating her which resulted in serious injuries on her body and to her health. You thereby committed the above offence’.
Penpushing also reports that the accused person, having pleaded not guilty to the charges, the court granted the oral application of the prosecution, and the matter was adjourned to 19 January 2023, for the prosecution to prove its case.
Meanwhile, the judge, Justice B. Bassi, who presided over the matter, on Wednesday however, ruled that the accused should be remanded in correctional centre further further prosecution in the case
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