A married woman in Calabar the Cross River State capital has reportedly used a hot electric iron on her 10-year-old stepson for allegedly misplacing the sum of N200.
Mrs Mary Ita Edet, who resides at No 9, Ekpenyong Ekpenyong Street in Calabar South local government area, is said to be in the habit of maltreating her stepson, Precious Daniel Offiong, a pupil of Santa Maria Primary School, who has been living with her since he was four.
According to neighbours’ account, Mrs. Mary Ita Edet is married to Precious Daniel Offiong’s dad and she has always been maltreating the little boy while she pampers her own daughter.
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Precious was accused of misplacing two hundred naira by the stepmother and she flogged the hell out of the child and used an electric iron connected to electricity to burn him all over his body.
They disclosed that the Cross River State Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Dr. Helen Isamoh Egodo has been contacted and has promised to visit the child and the stepmother for necessary legal actions.
“The young boy has gone through a lot of torture and maltreatment in the hands of his stepmother, who most times starved him and allowed him to trek to church while she and her daughter go by tricycle popularly known as “keke”.
“No child, be it biological or non biological, deserves such treatment. We won’t allow such illegalities and devilish acts to go unpunished. The little boy needs urgent medical attention while the stepmother deserves to face the wrath of the law,” the neighbours told our reporter, while pleading to remain anonymous.
