Lagos State Police Command has concluded investigation on a thirty-nine-year-old mother, Ayo Sheriff, who allegedly abused her child with a hot electric iron over two hundred and fifty naira.

According to the command, the case was reported by Chosen Child Orphanage located at Gastya Estate, Ijora-Badia on behalf of the sixteen-year-old daughter.

Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti said the upper and lower right limbs of the victim were allegedly burnt by her biological mother with hot electric pressing iron.

Oti, a Superintendent of Police, said the Commissioner of Police Imohimi Edgal, was miffed at the sight of the wounds inflicted on the child by her mother.

According to him, the Gender Section of the Command, headed by Superintendent of Police Adejoke Cole, had concluded investigation into the case and would charge the suspect to Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

Oti said the daughter, a student of a secondary school and also a part time student nurse in auxiliary capacity, was given five hundred naira by her boss.

He said the victim was instructed to hand over two hundred naira to someone on her way home, use fifty naira as transport fare and return the balance of two hundred and fifty naira to her boss the next day.

“However, on the day she was supposed to return the balance of the money to her boss, the victim defaulted. She told her boss that the money was with her mother.

“The boss called her mother on the phone and she denied knowledge of the money.

“When the victim returned home from work, her mother, who was already waiting for her, plugged an electric iron and waited until it was red hot.

“At this stage, she used the red hot iron to welcome her daughter home, accusing her of being a disgrace to the family,” Oti said.

According to him, the commissioner has called on parents to correct their children with love.

Oti decried the increasing rate of domestic violence, which he said, was a source of concern to the command.