{"id":75744,"date":"2025-09-27T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75744"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:17:34","slug":"employer-scalds-16-year-old-domestic-worker-with-hot-water-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/27\/employer-scalds-16-year-old-domestic-worker-with-hot-water-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer Scalds 16-Year-Old Domestic Worker with Hot Water in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/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 her employer allegedly poured hot water on her in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its Facebook page Friday, NAPTIP said the rescue followed a tip-off from neighbours, who also rushed the victim to a hospital after witnessing the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The agency disclosed that the girl, from a family of 12 in Imo State, had been employed to care for her employer\u2019s three children, including two-month-old twins and a seven-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the employer scalded the teenager with hot water during one of her night shifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlert neighbours quickly rushed her to a hospital and immediately contacted NAPTIP, prompting a swift rescue operation,\u201d the agency stated.<\/p>\n<p>NAPTIP confirmed that investigations have commenced and vowed that \u201call individuals involved in this heinous act will face the full weight of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued a 16-year-old domestic worker after her employer allegedly poured hot water on her in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja. In a statement posted on its Facebook page Friday, NAPTIP said the rescue followed a tip-off from neighbours, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75744","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\/75744","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=75744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75746,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions\/75746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}