Court Sentences Couple 13 Years For Abusing House Help
A High Court sitting in Enugu, has sentenced one Jude Ozougwu and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, to 13 years imprison for child abuse.
The couple arrested by the police in 2020, were found guilty of inflicting bodily harm on their 10-year-old house help, Nneoma Nnadi.
It was gathered that they abused the victim for allegedly causing her baby to fall to the ground at their home in Aku, Igbo-Etiti LGA of Enugu state.
The couple were also accused of inserting pepper into the little girl’s private part & locking her up in the toilet for refusing to wash plates.
They were arrested after neighbors raised an alarm and was subsequently arraigned before Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of State High Court 10 on three-count bordering on inflicting grievous harm, administering noxious or poisonous substance & employment of a child as a domestic worker.
Delivering judgment in the suit marked No: HE/121c/2020 between the State (Plaintiff/Applicant and Jude Ozuogu and Ifeoma Ozuogu (1 & 2 Defendants), the court convicted them, and Condemned the treatment on the 10-year-old girl, and therefore, sentenced the couple to 13 years imprisonment each.
Justice Ogbuabor convicted the couple on all three counts and sentenced them accordingly. On count one – Inflicting grievous harm, the court sentenced them to three years imprisonment.
On count two – administering a noxious or poisonous substance, the court sentenced the couple to five years imprisonment, and on count three – employment of a child as a domestic worker, the court sentenced the couple to five years imprisonment.
The court, however, ordered that the period the convicts had stayed in custody from the day of arrest should be discounted.
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