Detectives attached to Special Area, Rumudomaya Police Division in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, have arrested a woman identified simply as Jessica for allegedly stripping naked and bathing pepper on her 13 year old daughter.

The incident happened in Rupokwu town, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State.

Narrating the incident, to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, the mother of the teenage girl who only gave her name as Goodness, said she was at her workplace on Sunday evening when some persons informed her over the phone that Jessica had stripped her daughter naked and was torturing her.

The traumatized mother stated that before she arrived home, neighbours had already rescued her daughter from her attacker.

She said ?My daughter told her that on Christmas day, a female neighbour who is a friend to Jessica took her to Jessica?s house and minutes later, Jessica?s husband, Mr Ebuka sent his wife (Jessica) and her friend on an errand.

?As his Ebuka?s wife went out with her friend, Ebuka pounced on my daughter and allegedly raped her after threatening to deal with her if she refuses.

?After he was done, he let my daughter go.Though my daughter did not tell me because of the threat. Nobody has seen Ebuka after that day.

?So on Sunday evening, Ebuka?s wife, Jessica, came to my shop and told my daughter to follow her that she wants to show my daughter something in the house. My daughter followed her only to get to their house,she stripped my daughter naked, poured her pepper and also inserted pepper in her vagina, dragged my daughter outside her house and flogged her severally with machet accusing her of having sex with her husband,Ebuka. Some persons even videoed my daughter,? he added.

Responding to the ugly development, the National Coordinator of Centre for Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign, Mr. Prince Wiro, condemned the alleged torture of the 13 year old girl.

Wiro described the incident as inhumane, barbaric and disheartening.

Mr Wiro said ?We have interacted with the teenager and even saw the bruises and wounds on her body. We demand a thorough investigation by the Police.

?The Police should make concerted effort to bring in Ebuka, the woman?s husband to answer for the allegation against him; anybody found culpable in the course of investigation should be made to face the law.?

Public Relations Officer for the Rivers State Police Command SP Grace Iringe-Koko, when contacted, promised to revert to our correspondent, but had yet to do so when this report was filed. (Daily Independent)