The 27-year-old woman was said to have poured the hot water on the girl, Chinecherem on Sunday, as punishment for her stubbornness.
It was gathered that Falade’s act was triggered by her missing laptop which the housemaid said was taken by her brother-in-law, identified simply as Lekan, while she was not around.
It was gathered that the woman refuted the maid's explanation, saying that the housemaid ought to have notified her before allowing him take the laptop. In a burst of rage, she grabbed a kettle on the gas cooker and poured it on the girl's chest.
It was said that Falade’s neighbours on Church Street, Powerline, in the Ijaiye-Ojokoro area of Lagos, alerted a human rights group to the incident, having sighted the victim’s burnt chest. The group, it was learnt, reported the case to the police who eventually arrested Falade.
Falade appeared before a Magistrate’s Court sitting at Ojokoro in the Ifako-IJaiye area of the state on two counts of maltreatment and assault.
The prosecutor, Lugard Ahonle, said the charges, to which the accused pleaded not guilty, were contrary to and punishable under sections 135 and 171 Vol.44 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
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