A young man
has been arrested for allegedly beating his 7-year-old son to death in Port
Harcourt, Rivers state.
According to
multiple online sources, the man accused his child of stealing N3200 on Friday
night and beat him till 1am on Saturday. The little boy was found lifeless this
morning after the father tried to wake him up to run an errand for his pregnant
wife.
It was
gathered that the boy had been maltreated by his father and step-mom since his
mother left, including being starved on a daily basis.
An Instagram
user, @srigeorgeom who witnessed the incident, wrote; What a cruel world. This
week Tuesday, between the hours of 8 to 9 am. I saw crowd of people around my
vicinity gathered this little boy, so I stopped by and inquired what happened.
They told me this little boy on his way to school, stole doughnut from a shop.
The people whom he stole the doughnut even gave him more of it and mineral and
asked him to go. They all claimed that his father and stepmum have the habit of
starving and beating him to stupor on daily basis.
I saw so
many scars on his body.I took the boy to my house, interviewed him, and he told
me so many things. How he has been suffering since his mother left his father.
I gave him some biscuits, asked him to come and eat at my place anytime and
promised to see his father this week before he left for school just to wake up
this morning with shouting that his father has beaten him to death. His father
has finally killed him. This happened in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria




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