{"id":75735,"date":"2025-09-27T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75735"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:05:00","slug":"naptip-rescues-16-year-old-domestic-worker-scalded-with-hot-water-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/27\/naptip-rescues-16-year-old-domestic-worker-scalded-with-hot-water-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPTIP Rescues 16-Year-Old Domestic Worker Scalded With Hot Water in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued a 16-year-old domestic worker after she was allegedly scalded with hot water by her employer in the Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released Friday on NAPTIP\u2019s official Facebook page, the rescue followed a distress call from concerned neighbours who witnessed the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a native of Imo State and the eighth of 12 children, had been engaged to care for her employer\u2019s three children, including two-month-old twins and a seven-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours rushed the injured teenager to a nearby hospital before alerting NAPTIP, a move the agency said was crucial in saving her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports indicate that the girl was deliberately doused with hot water by her employer. Alert neighbours quickly moved her to a medical facility and notified NAPTIP, prompting a rapid rescue operation,\u201d the agency confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP added that a full investigation is underway and assured that those responsible would be prosecuted in line with the law.<\/p>\n<p>The case underscores a troubling trend of domestic violence in Nigeria in which hot water is used as a weapon, often with devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, a woman, Ramota Soliu, reportedly killed her husband, Bello Soliu, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, after pouring hot water on him.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, in September 2023, a landlord identified as Michael allegedly scalded an 11-year-old girl, Princess, with hot water in the Mowe area of Ogun State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued a 16-year-old domestic worker after she was allegedly scalded with hot water by her employer in the Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to a statement released Friday on NAPTIP\u2019s official Facebook page, the rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75737,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions\/75737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}