Oh dear, this dad is so cruel!
A father has allegedly beaten his four-year old son to death,
padlocking his mouth to prevent him from shouting while the beating
lasted.
The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at 7, Adetola Adelaja Street, Meiran area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
P.M.NEWS
gathered that the man, Mr. Chris Elvis, who claims to sell computer
accessories, allegedly locked his son, Godrich in the room, padlocked
his mouth and beat him to death with an object that inflicted deep cuts
all over his body, claiming that the boy was an Ogbanje (evil child that
dies and reincarnates repeatedly).
See photo below (Viewer’s discretion advised)
Little Godrich after he was beaten to death by his dad |
The
man landed in trouble when his landlady, Mrs Popoola who was in the
market, was informed that something was happening in her house. She
rushed home and discovered that the boy had been beaten to death by his
father.
She rushed to Meiran Police Station to report the matter.
The police stormed the house around 9 O’clock last night to arrest Elvis
who was about to escape.
After allegedly killing the boy, he
locked him in one of his rooms. He told the police that nothing happened
but when the police forced the locked room open, they found the dead
boy with padlock in his mouth.
The
police at Meiran took the boy’s corpse away and deposited it at the Ota
General Hospital, while the man was detained and would be transferred
to Area ‘M’ Police Division in Lagos later for further investigation.
After
the incident on Monday, the police also arrested the landlady who came
to report the matter at the police station and detained her till Tuesday
morning, while allegedly demanding for N50,000 to bail the innocent
woman.
A tenant in the house, Apostle Freedom Damian said Elvis
had been a strange man in the house as he do not talk to anybody and was
always keeping to himself and nobody could ask him questions.
He described the murder of the boy as gruesome and cruel.
Tenants living in the same compound with Elvis never knew his name and could not tell P.M.NEWS reporter his name because he does not interact with people.