A lawyer, Mrs. Adachukwu Chikelue-Okafor, who used a hot iron to brutalize her 11- year old housemaid in Onitsha has been remanded by the Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court, sitting in Awka.
According to Vanguard Newspaper, the lawyer is being detained in police custody after her case was mentioned on Wednesday.
She had earlier appeared before the Anambra State commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo during which she claimed that the girl only injured herself while trying to run away from being flogged.
After the incident, the lawyer fled from her home and was declared wanted and a bounty of N2 million placed on her head, before she later turned herself in at a police station in Awka.
On Wednesday, she faced a-two count charge of willful infliction of physical injuries on the body of one Happiness Nwafor, an offence punishable under Section 4(1) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition and Protection) Laws of Anambra State of Nigeria 2017.
The case was adjourned to February 28, 2024.
