GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Birthday Water Ritual Goes Wrong As Teenage Boy Bathes Girl With Acid

A birthday ritual of pouring water on celebrant landed two teenagers in serious trouble and pain after a teenage boy reportedly poured acid on her friend thinking it was Izaal.

The 14-year-old victim, identified as Victoria Emmanuel was celebrating her birthday on March 29, at No. 1, Baba Elegbe Street, Mafoluku Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos State before the sad incident.

Victoria narrated her tragic story to The Nations: “It was my birthday. I had gone to fetch water at the night market when my friends stopped me on the road and started pouring the water on me to celebrate my birthday. Some were pouring dirty water on me and others were pouring sand. That was how Moshood ran into Iyawo pastor’s shop and brought out a container. There was something inside and I told him not to pour it on me because we didn’t know what was in it.

“He opened it and said it was smelling like chemical. We told him again that he shouldn’t pour it on me but he didn’t listen. As I walked pass him, he poured the content on my body from behind. I screamed and ran towards the tap but he got there before me and opened it so that water would pour on my body. While I was under the tap, the woman who owned the place chased us away that I was wasting her water. That was the last thing I remembered. I was later told that I fainted and was rushed to the hospital.

“Although one Ganiyu claimed that he told him he was going to hurt me, I don’t know if it is true. He insisted that he thought it was Izaal that was inside, but the shop owner has denied keeping any acid in her shop. The woman was crying and swearing that she didn’t keep anything like that since she has little children, who could have easily gotten to it.”