By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI—EBONYI State Police Command said it has arraigned a female medical doctor for allegedly pouring hot water on a minor in Abakaliki.

In a chat with Vanguard, the Police Spokesperson, ASP George Okafor, who noted that the police acted swiftly when the matter was reported, added that the court would give a final verdict on the case as it bordered on attempted murder and victimization.

The doctor, Jane-Glad Ugbala, who works with the Federal Teaching Hospital, FETHA, was accused of pouring hot water on her house-help for allegedly disobeying her directive.

Vanguard learned that the medical doctor’s action came to be known when her victim was brought to the Federal Teaching Hospital, FETHA II, Abakaliki, three days after the incident allegedly occurred in the home of the accused in Abakaliki.

The victim, Nwanga Chidiebere, who is still receiving treatment at the plastic surgery ward of the hospital, explained that he had been living with the lady since January 2015 and that on that fateful day, he had just returned from school and was about washing some clothes when his madam asked him to go and boil yam that her children will eat.

Recounting his ordeal, the victim, who is a JSS 3 student of Presco Secondary School said:”The pain was so much that I ran outside and almost cried out my eyeballs from their sockets. Then she came to meet me outside and asked me to go and clean where I washed clothes and after that, I should pack my belongings and leave her house that she didn’t want to live with me again.”

Vanguard further gathered that the intervention of a Civil Defence Officer and the parent of the victim ensured that justice was meted out on the accused.