Crime News



Pregnant nurse attacks housemaid with razor blade


From Aloysius Attah, Onitsha
pregnant nurse residing at Ozigbo Street, Nkpor, Idemili North local gov­ernment, Anambra State during the weekend es­caped lynching by an an­gry mob after she attacked her housemaid with razor blade.
Eye witness account told Daily Sun that the woman attacked the housemaid with razor blade for daring to take food after cooking without her permission, thereby inflicting serious injuries on her face, but­tock and other parts of her body.
It was the cries of the maid identified as Chinaza from Imo State that attract­ed a primary school teach­er who rushed to the scene and raised an alarm which attracted other people in the neighborhood.
Women in the area quickly mobilized and vowed to deal with the nurse whom they described as callous and heartless for having the heart to treat another woman’s child in that way while she also had two children and expecting another baby.
It was the vigilante group operating in the area that rescued the woman and detained her in their office before alerting the guardian of the battered maid.
Things took another di­mension when the guard­ian who handed over the maid to the nurse instead of reporting the case to the police said that it was a family matter.
He reportedly demanded the sum of N50, 000 from the nurse for the medical treatment of the maid.
When the reporter vis­ited the area yesterday, sources said the nurse has gone into hiding while the guardian to the maid has taken her to their home­town.
A member of the vigi­lante whom the reporter met at the office confirmed the incident but said that their commander was not around to give further de­tails on the matter.
He said that he is from Calabar and doesn’t under­stand Igbo language which the actors in the matter used to speak while the woman and the maid were brought into their office.

Comments