A very unfortunate incident has caused the death of a 11-year-old boy in Tasha Gwagwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to a report on The Sun, a 34-year-old man, Solomon (surname withheld) killed his 11 year old son for sleeping with his 8 year old sister.
Confirming the incident, Wilson Inalegwu, the commissioner of police FCT command, described the incident as pathetic and a troubling demonstration that has crept into the Nigerian society.
Inalegwu said Solomon has been arrested but urged parents to keep a close eye on their children and be mindful of the kind of movies they are exposed to at home.
At the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, where he is being held, Solomon has been bemoaning his action.
According to reports, the 34-year-old has been cursing the evil spirit that led his late son into the error of committing incest with his eight-year-old sister (name withheld).
Narrating what happened on a Sunday evening, Solomon said that he came home one day in April 2016 and saw his young son engaged in sexual act with his younger sister right in his bedroom.
“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,” Solomon said.
Overcome by anger, he rushed out again, picked up a stick and beat him severely. The beating caused the little boy to go into convulsion and then lost consciousness the next day.
He was however rushed to Gwarinpa General Hospital by benevolent neighbours of the family. Sadly, the 11-year-old boy died soon after he got to the hospital.
The father, who earlier in the day had gone out was summoned to the hospital by phone. When he got to the hospital and introduced himself, the doctor informed him that his son had died.
The doctor detained him on pretext and promptly called the Gwarinpa police station, which sent policemen and Solomon was arrested.
The doctor told the police that the boy died as a result of internal injuries he sustained in the course of being beaten by his father.
Following his arrest, Solomon from Igbo-Eze North local government area of Enugu state, 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.”
Speaking on the incident, a neighbour of the bereaved father, Ali Ahmed said: “We heard when the father was beating the child. He beat him to correct him for what he did. The son was very stubborn. The father never had intention to kill his son.
“What the doctor did that night in the hospital was bad. How could he call the police to arrest the father of the dead boy? We were expecting the doctor to tell the father how to carry the corpse of his son. It is a lesson to every parent.”
Another neighbour, John Gabriel, however, had a contrary view.
He said: “What the doctor did was right. The doctor thought that the father would run away upon hearing that his child had died. The parents of the boy are good people. It was me that even called the father on the phone to meet us at the hospital.”
Meanwhile, CP Wilson Inalegwu has said the matter would be charged to court.
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