{"id":780,"date":"2024-05-19T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2024-05-19T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T09:49:49","slug":"stepmother-arrested-for-burning-childrens-hands-over-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/stepmother-arrested-for-burning-childrens-hands-over-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepmother Arrested For Burning Children&#8217;s Hands Over Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<article class=\"single-article\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"lSfe4c r5bEn\">\n<div class=\"SoAPf\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old stepmother, Rachel Geoffrey, for allegedly inflicting severe burns on her 7-year-old and 3-year-old stepchildren.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje on X.com on Saturday.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-781\" src=\"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/i-3-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/i-3-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/i-3.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the police statement, the stepmother intentionally set fire to the children\u2019s hands as punishment for eating food she had saved for their father.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/u7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 15\/5\/2024 the Command arrested a 23-year-old Rachel Geoffrey a resident of Federal Housing estate, Girei local government area who on 14\/5\/2024 intentionally inflicted severe physical injuries on her 7 and 3 years stepchildren.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Victims Genesis Geoffrey 7 years and Ijadai Geoffrey 3 years faced several calculated acts of cruelty and Human rights violations from their stepmother after the separation of their mother from their father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost worrisome is the recent incident in which she cooked Rice and kept it for her Husband who happened to be the father of the victims and then went out, the hungry kids took and ate their father\u2019s food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat angered her, she then tied their hands with a handkerchief making them powerless and set fire to their hands resulting in the severe injuries they sustained.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"other-news\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old stepmother, Rachel Geoffrey, for allegedly inflicting severe burns on her 7-year-old and 3-year-old stepchildren. This was made known in a statement by the state Police&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}