Her death was as a result of alleged physical abuse by her guardian, named Mrs. Nneamaka Nwachuku, a Microbiologist who works in one of the Research Institutes in Vom, Jos South local government area of the state.

Margaret was said to be fleeing from insecurity in her community and was taken to the accused who proposed to be of help to her last year.

The alleged child abuser, a mother of two who did not enroll the victim in any school in the over one year that the girl had spent with her, allegedly indulged in the daily beating of the girl until she finally died as the result of the assault. It was alleged that after a recent beating, the girl was forced to sit in a container with hot water which burnt her buttocks and she died in the hospital on Monday, November 14.

The woman that tortured Margaret to death.