10-Year Old-Girl dehumanize with Hot Knife, Pepper by a Lagos Resident Flees Home

The incident was also reported to Advocate for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network, a non-governmental organization (ACVPN).

Victory Oghenovo, a 10-year-old girl, is currently bedridden in a hospital in Lagos State after her guardian, Evidence Eseoghene, dehumanized her for spending N100 on snacks.

According to SaharaReporters, Oghenovo worked as a POS operator for Eseoghene at Adeba, Lakowe axis of Lekki, and she used the money from the day’s POS transactions last Thursday to feed herself.

Ill-treated 10-year-old girl

When the woman arrived at the house, she first put pepper in the girl’s eyes, then set a hot knife on fire and tortured the little girl with it.

A witness said she learned about the incident when the girl fainted at the POS stand on Friday and told her about her ordeal the night before.

The incident was also reported to Advocate for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network, a non-governmental organization (ACVPN).

A witness disclosed, “The girl collapsed on Friday at her shop where she did POS for her aunty. People gathered there and asked her what the problem was; she said her back was paining her, we opened the back and saw burns, we asked her what happened to her, she said she used N100 to buy puff puff and Zobo when she was hungry on Thursday.

“When she got to the house, the aunt put pepper in her eye, placed a knife on fire and burnt her with it. I immediately took her to the Elemoro police station, I discovered she had other scars; I said what happened, she said some months ago, her aunt called one Alhaja who gave her those scars.

“That same day, the police arrested the Alhaja, but the aunty already fled.”

It was purported that policemen at the Elemoro station were already jeopardizing the case as the Alhaja was released because the police considered it an old case and because the woman claimed she was pregnant.