A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Awka, Rev. Fr Jude Muokwe has allegedly beaten up a 50-year-old widow, Mrs Ikeorah Maureen from Ifitedunu in Dunukofia Local Government Area, Anambra State.
Angel Network News (ANN) gathered that
Maureen, is currently traumatized and in severe pains following her recent ugly ordeal in the hand of a reverend father who allegedly brutalized her.
According to sources, the priest, who is also the Manager of the Angel Primary School, Ifitedunu, a mission school where the widow works as a teacher, had inflicted varied degrees injuries on the widow after flogging her with cane and slapping her at the time.
This was corroborated by a video currently trending on social media, showing the widow crying helplessly while recounting her ordeal. The video also samples some of the bodily injuries inflicted on the widow.
It was gathered that the widow and some other staff of the school were having a meeting in one of the classrooms in the school discussing their interest in salary increment, which they intended to relate to the school Management thereafter; and the priest banged into the classroom with cane and started beating her mercilessly, accusing her of being the convener of the meeting.
The incident has generated a lot of reactions on social media, with many people calling for sanctions on the priest for being inhuman to an innocent widow.
