A man simply identified as Solomon finds himself in the custody of police and a possible jail term after he beat his 11-year-old son to death. The reason given was that the son had been caught sleeping with his 8-year-old sister.
The incident happened in the Tasha Gwagwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to the Sunday Sun the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu confirmed the incident bemoaning the circumstances of it all.
Solomon narrated that he’d come home around 4pm sometime in April to meet his son engaged in illicit activities of a sexual nature with his sister.
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He was so enraged that he’d beaten his son to a point where he started to convulse and then lost consciousness the next day. Solomon said of the incident, “Victor was my son, an 11-year-old boy. I had been receiving bad reports about him. The height of it was that he started sleeping with his sister, who is eight-years-old. I had been receiving several reports about the ugly incident. Around 4.00 pm, I came back from work and met Victor sleeping with his sister in my bedroom. The stepmother was not at home,”
After he fell unconscious the boy was rushed to the hospital where he later died. The father was summoned to the hospital and was given the bad news. The doctor then detained the father long enough to get the police on the scene and he was arrested.
According to the Sunday Sun, the doctor said the boy died from internal injuries caused by the severe beating he received from the father.
The father was very upset by the outcome and said, “ I wept when the doctor told me that my son had died. I didn’t have the intention to kill my son. I was trying to correct him because of the immoral act he committed. How can I beat my son to death? I couldn’t believe what I saw. I only acted in anger; I never wanted to kill my son.”
The FCT Commissioner of Police has said the matter would be charged to court.
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