By Maureen Dick
THE Azikiwe Police Division on Tuesday evening, quizzed the Proprietor and Proprietress of Christ Ambassadors Mission International School located in Eagle Island in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over burning of a female student of the school, aged 14 years, with hot pressing Iron all over her body over a missing N30,000.
Pentoks News that residents at Amazing Grace junction at Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, who saw the body of the teenage interrogated her, to know how she sustained the burns on her body.
The teenage girl informed them that that her Aunty reported her to the school, that she allegedly stole N30,000; an allegation the teenage girl denied.
The residents who saw her aunty walking out intercepted and held her as the crowd continued to surge.
Speaking on the incident, Mr. Prince Wiro, a rights advocate and National Coordinator of Centre for Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign, said he received a call from a resident on the incident and quickly rushed down to the scene with intention of reporting the incident first at the Police post in the Eagle Island.
Wiro said: “Upon my arrival at the scene, Police operatives were at the scene already with large angry crowd who wanted to beat up the the aunty of the teenage girl.
“So, I pleaded with them to hand over the suspect and the child to the Police; that I would go with them to the station, which I did.
“At the Police Station, the child said it was the school principal, one Priscilla in company of another teacher, who used hot press iron to to burn her, that she (victim) should confess to stealing the N30,000, her aunty said was missing.
“The proprietor and proprietress of the school were invited and were being questioned by the Police as at the time I was leaving the Police station.
“I condemn the torture on the teenage girl and call for thorough investigation by the Police. Whosoever that is culpable in the course of investigation, should face the law. It is man’s inhumanity to man.”
As at presstime, the female Principal has not been seen.