About one month after being on the run, one Mrs. Adachukwu Chukelu Okafor, a lawyer and self-confessed ‘lover of God’ who allegedly molested a 10-year-old Happiness, whom she took into her household to serve as a maid, had been arrested by the police in Anambra State, CommunityReporters has learned.
Barr. Okafor, who resides in Akpaka, Onitsha, in Anambra State with Happiness, it was gathered, had allegedly inserted hot knife into the little girl’s private part and designed her buttocks with hot pressing iron, as a punishment for touching her own daughter.
It was learned that Adachukwu brought Happiness into her home in January 2024 after contacting her parents to help her get a child who would assist her with house chores.
She was however declared wanted by both the federal Ministry of women affairs and the state Ministry of women affairs, where a bounty was placed
CommunityReporters learned that the lawyer submitted herself to the police, who promptly detained her.
Anambra State Government confirmed her detention to reporters in Awka.
It was gathered that she allegedly boasted while manhandling the child that she was a lawyer, adding that nothing would happen to her
The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs. Ify Obinabo, confirmed the lawyer’s detention
She said the Onitsha-based lawyer surrendered herself to the police few days after a bounty of N2 milion was placed on her .
Obinabo said the suspect would be arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka this week.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner, who said she visited the victim of the brutalization recently v in the hospital, confirmed that she had been successfully treated and discharged