A medical student simply identified as Yemisi has been accused of pouring hot water on her step sister, Oluwafunke Arogbonlo because the latter allegedly had a fight with the suspect’s mother.
The Punch reports that the incident happened at the family residence on Road 1, federal housing estate, Mile 4 in Port Harcourt. It started on Tuesday, September 2 when Oluwafunke who was staying with her father after her mother left got into an altercation with her step mother simply identified as Victoria. The step mother fell and hit her head again the wall in the ensuing struggle.
It was reported that Victoria reported the incident to her children and when Yemisi returned from school on Friday, December 4, she pretended as if she wasn’t bothered. In the middle of the night however, she took a bucket of hot water and doused her step sister with it where she was asleep. The victim was rushed to a hospital as she sustained severe burns on her neck, breasts, buttocks, chest and back.
Oluwafunke said when her sister returned from school, they “greeted and I tried to explain to her that I did not touch her mother that it was a misunderstanding and she wanted to hit me when I dodged and she fell. She told me not to bother about it, that it was gone and we should move on as sisters.
“I was asleep at night when she boiled water. She came into my room with a bucket of hot water and emptied it on me.
“I knew she was the one because immediately she did it, I opened my eyes and saw her. I was in pain.”
The victim’s mother said she flew to Port Harcourt from Lagos when she heard what happened to her daughter.
“I flew in on Monday night and immediately the plane touched down, I came right to the hospital. She has been in pain ever since the incident and although I learnt the matter had been reported at the police station, the police did not act until I got here and Funke’s friends went to make the report again.
“The police had to come to the hospital to take down her statement.”
In a related development, some area boys driving in a public Volkswagen bus poured acid on one Mr Akude Silas of the Lagos State Environmental and Special
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