Nigeria: Trafficked Girl Cries - 'I Was Fatally Injured By My Boss' Sibling'

23 March 2013

Calabar — A Thirteen-year-old girl, Precious Udu, who was  taken from Obudu in northern Cross River State  to Calabar to work as a house maid, has allegedly been bathed  with hot water severely burning her neck, shoulder and chest even as she was not allowed  to attend school by her mistress.

Precious said sometime in 2012, one Amaman approached her mother and appealed that her sister residing in Calabar needed somebody to stay with her and that  she should  allow Precious to be taken to Calabar to serve as housemaid  to the sister.

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