The police in Taraba State have arrested a man and his wife accused of torturing their 13-year-old ward over suspected theft.
The girl was taken to hospital with severe burns on her hands after the incident was reported to the police.
The state commissioner of police, David Iloyanomon, stated this on Friday while parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Jalingo, the state capital.
Mr Iloyanomon said the police division in the area received a complaint on 1 July that one Bulus Bitonopa tortured the girl (name withheld), causing her “temporal paralysis.”
The chief said a man he identified as Hon. Cleopas was also in custody for taking the victim to his house in Jalingo instead of taking her to the hospital “in a bid to conceal the crime.”
He said Mr Cleopas also resisted police intervention after the matter was reported.
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