Man is remanded by an Imo court for burning a maid's buttocks

 Man is remanded by an Imo court for burning a maid's buttocks

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Uzoma Egemba, a guardian, has been placed on remand at the Owerri Correctional Center after being accused of scalding his 12-year-old maid Chimkamso Ekeocha's body and buttocks for using his kids' bicycles.

Egemba was arraigned by the state's police on Wednesday and then remanded by P.C. Nnoromole of the Owerri Magistrate's Court.

The judge remanded the defendant and set a hearing date of July 20 to hear the Department of Public Prosecutions' report after claiming that she lacked the authority to hear the case.

The magistrate had the constitutional authority to hear the case, according to the accused's attorney, K. U. Alisigwe, but the jurist insisted that she lacked the jurisdiction to do so.

The magistrate reminded him that she was not recording him as Alisigwe continued.

Ogechi, the attorney for the police, who had taken out a remand notice, concurred with the magistrate that she lacked the authority to hear the case.

"That you Egemba Uzoma, on June 26, 2022, at area L World Bank Housing Estate in the Owerri magisterial district did unlawfully and without justification wound one Chikamso Ekeocha by giving her multiple deep wounds on her back using a very hot frying spoon placed at a burning cooking gas and intentionally placed on her back which caused multiple maim on her back, got her disfigured, and does gracious harm to Owerri.

Following the global success of a video shot by the victim's instructor, Egemba was taken into custody last week.

The extent of the alleged harm that the accused allegedly inflicted on the minor was evident in the video.

Concerned Nigerians, led by a social media influencer named Darlington Ibekwe, a journalist and activist named Chidiebube Okeoma, and others, including members of the National Human Rights Commission and Joy Onuoha from the Vulnerability and Rights Project Initiative, arrested the accused, took the minor to the Imo Specialist Hospital Umuguma, and led the advocacy for her well-being.

After Nigerians, including the state chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, came to her aid, the minor had been treated and released from the hospital.