Couple Arrested For Allegedly Torturing Girl Over N10 Sweet
By Joyce Aroh
A couple, Mr and Mrs Philip Iboko, were Monday, arrested by operatives of the Ebonyi State Police Command for allegedly torturing an eight-year-old pupil.
The maltreatment of the little girl was said to have been seen in a trending video clip where she was kept in the scorching sun with her two legs tied together by her madam, Mrs Iboko.
The victim and the suspect had lived for two years.
The couple who hail from the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State unleashed their anger on the little girl for eating part of the N10.00 sweet they bought for their two-year-old baby.
A source said it took the intervention of caring neighbours (Mr Chinedu and Mr Raymond) to untie the little girl.
The two neighbours, according to the source, “Untie and took the girl off the scorching sun, as she was already getting weak consequent upon the beating she received from her aunty and the heat from the harsh sun”.
Efforts made to reach the Ebonyi State Police Command, to comment on the matter, proved abortive as calls put across to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs Loveth Odah, were not answered.
She was also yet to reply text messages sent to her mobile line, as of the time of filing this report.
