A middle
aged woman, Ene Edem Okon, has been arrested by the police for
allegedly inflicting bodily harm and tying her 11-year-old daughter,
Queeneth Ene Edem, hands and legs for being wayward. She was arrested
when Queeneth appeared in her school, Government Primary School, Akim, with
multiple wounds on her chest, stomach and buttocks prompting the school
authorities to report the matter to the police at the Akim Police Station.
The
girl narrated to Sunday Vanguard that, on February 17, she
left home at Eneyo village in Akpabuyo Local Government Area
for the Maternity Junction Settlement, some four kilometers away
from home, to meet her cousin, one Blessing, but did not return home. “We
were waiting for Blessing’s friend from whom she wanted to collect something
but she delayed in coming and we waited till night and, because we were afraid
of going back home, we slept in an uncompleted building at the Maternity
Junction”, she said.
