[TRENDING VIDEO] Outrage trails arrest of Imo woman over brutal assault leaving 13-year-old maid with swollen face
Social media has been buzzing following the arrest of a woman in Imo State who allegedly locked her 13-year-old housemaid inside before heading to the market, and then brutally flogging her upon her return for a late sale of bitter leaf.
Security forces forced entry to rescue the victim after her ordeal was captured on video, drawing widespread online condemnation.
While many netizens expressed outrage over the cruelty and demanded strict legal consequences for child abuse, others highlighted broader issues surrounding child domestic labor and raised discussions involving ethnic stereotypes.
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Here are some of the reactions from social media users:
Faye@4thave (@Faye4thave): Criminal charges against the woman, along with husband (conspiracy) if she has one. The moment both adults are held liable for the abuse of house helps, the moment it stops. Every adult that abused children, their images must stay circulated to avoid them ever gaining help again.
Gracodex (@GracodexHQ): why are some Igbo women so wicked? This is not the first time, these type of incident is happening.
SoundTech (@SoundTech77): Why always our Igbo women why! Omg this is evil
Hilltop (@AdesolaSo): Why are some women this wicked? What happened to them,why are they full with h@tred and d£pression that they pass across? This case is too much in South East ,is it that they are not accommodating? So painful😭😭
Andromedan (@Spiritsize): Where did this level of evil heart come from please? This does not represent the spirit of our ancestors… Our fore-mothers were never this evil. The Igbo women of today need serious cleansing… They’re seriously going against the spirit of Ala-igbo
Engr oyibo donatus (@Dony…): Chia this life ehen just pray nothing Will make your children experience this please .
Ikenna (@ikenna_onugbolu): Person web never chop belleful na him person carry him pikin give make him do maid for am. Some people no just get brain sha
Chinyereugo (@chinyereugo_): Majority of Igbo women are wicked, very wicked most especially the poor ones.
onlyrealdivine (@onlyrealdiviv…): And na them dey go church pass wicked soul if my wife in future starts this nonsense we are done and I will give her thesame thing this is wickedness
Bibi_Jaga (@flyingblue90): Look at house that have maid, some parents should be ashamed who and what they give their children to. Infact any parent that give child as maid tk this kain house ….. Let me not talk
EKEE (@MmaduekeObiekwe): Very ruthless and evil, she must go face the law
Ubah of Ubah (@UbahUchech…): I think they should ban corporal punishment across Igbo land . Research shows that 90 percent of our Igbo women are mentally unstable.
Dina (@dinaOFFICIA): Feminists no de see this one
Mazi Chijioke (@FreshChijio…): Look at her innocent face with w!cked mind, she should taste the jail abeg.
Faso (@Nonnyfaso2): This is getting out of hands in Igbo land . August meeting women Should discuss about it
Somi (@Somidiaryx): What joy do they derive in maltreating another woman’s child? If you feel they’re not helpful enough, return then to their parents in good health and sound mind!
Adeyemi Hassan Abraham (@…): This is pure wickedness,no matter what the kid might have done the punishment is too brutal. The girl right to life has been abused and she has to face the consequences
Odogwu praise (@bigcheck…): Igbo women, the most frustrated women in Nigeria. Nah Igbo women be leading people for feminism yet nah them day always make am to the nice cus of characters like this. Every single Igbo feminist are capable of maltreating their house help if them can afford one
LENY YORO (@LEYYORO_15): Omo why some of all this useless women’s like to beat their maid or treat them different from their own kids. No difference with one woman for our compound. I go still expose her if she try beat her maid again.
Fatima Yusuf (@ZahimaYusuf): Some people are just evil to the core. Beating a child like this and see her face strong she no dey even show remorse or guilt nothing at all. It’s disturbing.
Chisom (@Barnny_sommy): I frown at people who give out these kids as maid as much as I frown at their madam that oppress them. This is bad and sad. This why I condemn people giving birth to more than they can train. No child deserves to be subjected to forced labour.
Matt’s Designs x Ai (@Mike…): Una dey even dey look am. Person web una suppose beat shege comot for body fess before una arrest am.
B.O.B (@BOBBELIEVE6): Why is it always Igbo women always naw ooo
Good Governance (@good_g…): Why is this issue synonymous with Igbo women? This endemic has gotten to a stage where children labour should be totally abolished. Some Igbo women are extremely evil
REAL•EMRESS🌟 (@yrnemz): This is the act of w!ckedness and to be sincerely speaking this is always happening between women. Idk if they hate each other or what but the rate most women is maltreating their housemaids is very alarming. They said men are w!cked but it’s actually the opposite
B.O.S (@Badmus123): As long as I am alive, non of my kids will stay outside my home…. Never 👎 Because if u do this to my child, I will first rearrange ur face and put u on a wheelchair
O.N.D (@iamondmusic): Why are humans so heartless bro. Women come out to shout everyday about men. But this is their genders always maltreating little children. Now you all realize both genders can be evil. We should fix this sick society and stop this gender war madness
Oma Bekee (@BekeeOzzy): There’s something about maltreating these children these women are not telling us.