The police in Lagos
State have arrested a middle-aged woman, Linda Alapa, for allegedly beating her
10-year-old housemaid, Joy Mbafan, to death.
Mbafan lived with the suspect on Bolanle
Oduniyi Street, Okegbegun, in the Ikorodu area of the state.
Punch learnt that Alapa was
flogging the girl for a misdemeanor around 3am last Monday when she passed out
and died afterwards.
At the Ikorodu General
Hospital morgue where she had gone to deposit Mbafan’s corpse, a doctor on duty
was said to have noticed marks of violence on the body and alerted the police
at the Sagamu Road Division.
A police source told Punch’s correspondent that
after interrogation, Alapa confessed to beating the girl, adding that she would
be charged with murder.
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