According to Legal practitioner, Emeka Ugwuonye, this little boy was badly beaten by his mentally challenged father in Imo state recently. Emeka said he received a mail about the case in a group, Due Process Advocates, he runs on Facebook.
According to the mail which was sent in by a woman, the little boy came back home at night after playing with his friends and his father refused to open the door for him. Read below…
I am presently in my husband’s village, in Imo State.
This morning I woke up to some noise at the gate, I went out , my husband and mother in law were outside. My mother in law was holding a little boy called Chinaecherem Ukomadu of between 5 to 7 years of age. She called me to come closer and look at what the boy’s father did to him. (Find pictures below) According to people in the village the boy’s father is mentally unstable and the sister chased his wife away and collected the boy from her when the boy was just 4 months old. She later came and dumped the boy sometime ago claiming the boy was too stubborn. According to the people, the boy has been subjected to maltreatment of various forms, from going without food to sleeping outside to severe beating and what have you. Last night when the boy had finished playing with the other kids, he went home but the father refused him entrance. He kept knocking then decided to go to one of the families around, he was ignored so he went back, the father then allowed him in, gave him the beating of his life and hit him with a rode on the mouth. He was screaming and crying and bleeding. Of course again he slept in the cold outside, as at when I saw him, he had blood dried up all over his body. I could barely look at him without shivering. My husband, mother in law and everyone was in shock. Long story cut short: my husband took the boy in the car and together with his cousin who knew the whereabouts of the boy’s father’s sister we went to pick up the sister in I think the next village from where we proceeded to take the boy to FMC Owerri. While driving
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