Court sentences CBN staff and his wife to jail for abusing their 10yr old house help 

A High Court sitting in Enugu State has sentenced an employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jude Ozuogu & his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, to 13 years imprisonment for child abuse.

The convicts, who were arrested by the police in 2020, were found guilty of infl¥cting bodily harm on their 10-year-old home help SaharaReporters reports.

The convict ab¥sed the victim, identified as Nneoma Nnadi, for allegedly causing her baby to fall to the ground at their home in Aku, Igbo-Etiti LGA of the state.

The couple were also accused of in§£rting p£pper into the little girl’s private parts & l%cking her up in the toilet for refusing to wash plates.

They were arrested after neighbors raised an alarm and was subsequently arraigned before Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of State High Court 10 on three counts bordering on infl¥cting grievous harm, administering noxious or piou§ness substance & employment of a child as a domestic worker.