By SUNNY OKIM

A 24-year old girl by name Amarachi Okey-Ezeala, has been bathed with boiling water by her step mother Mrs Ugochi Okey-Ezeala nee Anyadike.

A close family source informedNews Expressthat Amarachi's mother died from breast cancer in 2019, not quite one year, and her father decided to take Ugochi as a new wife.

According to our source, the moment the new wife settled down in the house, the children left behind by the late wife would not know peace.

Information available toNews Expresshas it that Amarachi's father, Okechukwu Kingsley Ezeala who is a top management staff with a second generation bank on the island part of Lagos, though a nice personality, does not seem to have control over his new wife.

"The woman in question is very aggressive. She does not want to see the children left behind by the man's late wife," disclosed our source.

Mr Ezeala and his family according to our source, lived in Dolphin Estate in Ikoyi, Lagos but relocated to Banana Island when he married the new wife, after the death of his first wife.

The new wife purported aggression got to a peak earlier today when she allegedly poured boiling water from a steaming cooker on her step daughter, Amarachi under simple provocation.

The matter had not been reported to the police as at time of filing this report.