60-Year-Old Woman Admits Brutalising 9-Year-Old Househelp For Eating Cooked Macaroni

A 60-year-old woman, Hauwa Nelson, has been remanded by the Chief Magistrate Court I in Yola, Adamawa State, for allegedly inflicting multiple injuries on a 9-year-old adopted girl.

The suspect owned up to inflicting multiple injuries on the adopted girl, Merable Nelson, because she allegedly ate her cooked macaroni.

The charge sheet indicated that Merable was beaten severally with a cable wire by the defendant for allegedly eating her cooked macaroni on the 24th of last month.

Hauwa was arraigned on a 3-count charge of cruelty to a person, indecent treatment of a child and voluntary causing of hurt, contrary to sections 209, 210 and 220 of the Penal Code Law 2018.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charges brought against her by the Adamawa State Police Command.

The police disclosed that Hauwa committed the offence on March 24, 2024 and that it was reported to the Command on March 27 by the Adamawa State Social Welfare Office.

According to the Police Prosecutor, Inspector Zakka Musa, the defendant, who resides at Bekaji, Jimeta, Yola, descended on Merable after she ate her cooked macaroni.

He added that the defendant assaulted the girl, as a result of which she sustained injuries all over the back and some other parts of her body.

The prosecutor, after the defendant’s guilty plea, applied that the matter be adjourned to enable him to call a witness for the corroboration of the guilty plea.

Chief Magistrate Muhammed Buba granted the application, adjourned the case to April 22, 2024, and ordered the remand of the defendant in prison custody.