’Gadhafi’s daughter-in-law threw boiling water over my head’

A nanny who worked for one of Colonel Gadhafi's sons has told how boiling hot water was poured over her head after she refused to beat his daughter, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Shweyga Mullah's entire body is covered in weeping scabs after she was allegedly burned by Hannibal Gadhafi's wife, Aline Skaf.

She was found abandoned in a room at one of the family's luxury seaside villas in western Tripoli.

Ms Mullah, 30, came from her home country to work as a nanny for the couple's young daughter and son a year ago.

In an interview with CNN, she explained how model Aline lost her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child, the Mail said.

“She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head.

“There were maggots coming out of my head, because she had hidden me, and no one had seen me.”

Reporter Dan Rivers was quoted as saying that when he walked in the room, he thought she was wearing a hat because her injuries were so bad.

“Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.

“Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars -- some old, some still red, raw and weeping. As she spoke, clear liquid oozed from one nasty open wound on her head.”

A guard eventually took to a hospital, where she received some treatment but when Aline found out, he was threatened with imprisonment if he dared to help her again, the newspaper said.

“When she did all this to me, for three days, she wouldn't let me sleep,” Ms Mullah was quoted as saying.

“I stood outside in the cold, with no food. She would say to staff, 'If anyone gives her food, I'll do the same to you.' I had no water -- nothing.”