For watching television with her kids in Owerri, Imo State, a nursing mother has reportedly killed her underage housemaid.
But for some intervention, the lady would have been lynched by an infuriated mob.
A video shared online showed the woman carrying her child in a hospital in Owerri where the young girl died on account of the deep injuries allegedly inflicted on her.
As a crowd gathered around the hospital, voices could be heard in the video accusing the woman while the girl was shown lying lifeless in a hospital bed.
As they confronted the woman, the crowd at some point got agitated but someone warned them not to hit the nursing mother.
“Guy, no hit am, no hit am,” a voice is heard saying.
“She’s going to NAPTIP straight,” another says.
According to journalist Nonsonkwa Ochi War, the woman was apprehended by neighbours after the incident.
The underage maid was said to have been punished for sitting with the woman’s children to watch TV and this ultimately resulted in her death.
In the video trending online, the nursing mother was seen explaining herself but the crowd’s voice drowned hers.
“Very wicked woman. Is that not someone’s child?” Someone asked while showing the body of the maid.
“See her body, see what she did to her,” onlookers are heard saying as they film the girl’s body with their phones.
The woman was later heard narrating how she went to the market, returned home, and started cooking, but the voice of the crowd again drowned hers while they called her names.
“You’re wicked. You’re a wicked soul,” they tell her, adding, “See the child she took.”
The video has sparked outrage online, with many joining the woman’s neighbours to call for justice for the child.
Watch the video below.
