Five Year Child Chained By Her Aunty

A 42 year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Matthew, has
been paraded by the Ondo State Police
command for allegedly maltreating her late
younger sister’s daughter, Miss Precious
Michael, Five years.
Mary who is a mother of six children, was
accused of chaining and caging the little
Precious in a kiosk for five months for allegedly
being possessed and suffering from Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Mary, an indigene of Enugu State but a resident
of Imafo in Akure North local government was
said to have traveled to their home town around
last year December, when she was informed
about the death of her younger sister and
returned to her based with Precious.
It was learnt that Precious was caged, when
Mary and her husband accused her of being
spiritually possessed and also suffering from
HIV.
The five year-old girl was always fed, defecated
and urinated in the cage for five months before
she was rescued last month by the police.
When she was rescued by the police, her
condition became pathetic, forcing an Assistant
Superintendent Police (ASP) officer in charge of
Special Children Centre at Akure “A” Division,
Mrs. Olayemi Ojumu to donate her blood when
the medical team demanded for blood
transfusion.
But, Mary, who denied ever caging the little girl
said she was always locking her in a shop when
going to farm, saying, when she returned, she
would remove her from the shop.
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Mary said she took to locking her up when she
observed few months after she brought her from
Enugu that one of her legs was swollen.
She said “Immediately, I called my mother in
Enugu that Precious’ leg was swollen up and she
said that she must have contacted HIV, which
she said was what killed her late mother.
“I became perplexed and in the cause of
preventing her from spreading to my other six
children, I always put her in a shop when going
to a farm and when I returned, I always remove
her from that place, God is my witnessed.
Precious accused her aunt of chaining her two
legs and hands and also flogging her before
putting her in a cage.
She also said that sometime, she would not be
fed by her foster parents.
The Police Commissioner, Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison
said the police came to the kid’s rescue when
their neigbours hinted his officers on the girl’s
situation.
Ibifuro-Harrison said the aunt also accused
Precious of being possessed, adding that only
medical personnel can confirm if the little girl
was HIV positive or not.
The commissioner said when she saw the kid in
her terrible state, she could not controlled her
emotion.
She, however, commended her officers,
particularly the one who donated her blood for
the survival of the girl.
The police assured that the suspect and others
who are have been apprehended in connection
with the case would be charged to court soon.by chibabynaija1