Three children battered beyond recognition have been rescued from a room filled with fetish items and the two women who held them hostage have been arrested in Anambra state.
According to Anambra state police, the women, identified as Rejoice Raymond, 39, and Chidi Felicia Nwafor, 80, were arrested by police operatives attached to 3-3 Police Station Nkwelle.
Following intelligence report, on Friday, February 19, 2021, police stormed their address at No.13 Akunwanta Mbamalu Street, Federal Housing Estates 3-3, Nkwelle Ezunaka where they found three children locked up in a room.
The children; two boys and a girl were badly bruised and looking malnourished. They had broken bones and were left lying in their blood.
The entire room had blood stains alongside fetish items, including a mortar and multiples pestles, blood stained canes, concoction and more.
In the room was also found a bucket where the children were made to poop as they were not allowed out of the room.
The children, whose parents are not known, were too battered to speak. They were barely conscious and appeared to be in shock.
According police, the women had “subjected them into physical and emotional torture without feeding and inflicted several wounds on their body leaving them unconscious.”
Police rescued the children and rushed to hospital for medical attention.
Police, also, discovered some fetish substances, blood stained canes, concoctions and other incriminating items inside the rooms.
The women were said to own a ministry but also engage in fetishism, including pounding children in mortar.
The Police further disclosed that Investigation is on-going.