A 14-year-old girl who confessed killing her mistress, Mrs. Helen Adodo, on Thursday said that she was under a spell.

She gave the confession while being paraded by the Edo State Commissioner of Police, CP Johnson Kokumo in Benin City.

She said on the day of the incident, her mistress asked her to give her another cloth to change into because the ones she was putting on was smeared with kerosene.

She said she hurriedly did that and when she was done with it, she demanded food and water to bath before she went to bed to sleep.

According to her, “There is one of her friends that usually come around and when she comes, she sends me on errands.

“She used to go to a native doctor house. She comes at night and when she does, she passes the night in our house.

“She asked me to follow her one certain night and I refused. So when we came back, the woman I am staying with asked me to put on the light that was around 12:00 am.

“She called me to give her another clothes that the one she is putting on was smelling because of the kerosene that poured on it. She changed into another cloth.

“So I dropped the clothes that have the kerosene on the floor. She later asked me to prepare food and boil water for her to bath.

“So before I came out, her friend had already gone to the native doctor’s house. Some breezy uncontrollable forces came upon me. So I lost senses of what I was doing.

“I left the dishes I was to wash and went straight to stand on a stone and I later went inside the room where I discovered that my mistress was still sleeping so I hit the stone on her head and she died.

“So, I scratched my head and turned around four times before I regained my senses.

“So when I saw that I killed her, I held her and started crying in her pool of blood”, she said.

The JSS II Itohan Girls Grammar School student who was brought from Abuja to assist Mrs. Helen Adodo (now deceased) said the spirit warned her not to tell anyone and that if she does, she will die.

The suspect who has barely spent five months in Benin with her mistress said she has never killed anybody before and that she regretted her action.

•Sourced from a Daily Independent report.

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