By Deborah Akpede
Ikeja – A 33- year-old businesswoman, Angela David, who pleaded guilty to pouring hot water on her 13-year-old daughter, on Friday, changed her plea to not guilty.
David, had on Aug. 1, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous injuries on her daughter before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in Kirikiri Prisons, pending sentencing.
At the resumed hearing of the case on Friday, Magistrate B.O Osunsanmi, was about to sentence David, when David changed her plea to not guilty, saying that she did not understand the charge when she took the guilty plea.
Osunsanmi, then granted her bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.
She ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and show evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
The magistrate adjourned the case until Sept. 23 for mention.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on July 30 in Ilupeju area of Lagos.
Ayorinde alleged that the defendant poured hot water on her 13-year-old daughter , for allegedly stealing her N2,700.
“The defendant boiled water and poured it on her daughter while she was asleep.
“Her screens alerted the neighbours who rushed to the defendant’s room and quickly rushed her to the hospital.
”They reported the case to the police and the defendant was arrested, ” he said.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section 246 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which attracts three years in jail.
