The police in Imo state have arrested a 38-year-old businesswoman, Juliet Igwe, for allegedly using candlelight to inflict injuries on the private parts of her six-year-old female maid, simply identified as Onyinyechi.

The spokesperson of the command, SP Henry Okoye, while parading the suspect before newsmen, said apart from inflicting injuries on the minor’s private parts, the businesswoman also used hot water to peel off the infant’s two hands and used candle wax to injure her body.

He mentioned that the woman’s arrest followed intelligence received by operatives of the Ideato North police Divisional headquarters.

When interviewed, the suspect, who said that she inflicted the injuries on the minor, told journalists that she didn’t know that the use of candle wax and boiled water on the girl child was going to cause grievous damage to her.

The suspects also accused the child of stealing meat from her pot, saying her action was to forestall future recurrence.

Okoye mentioned that the suspect will be arraigned in court soon.