A thirty-three-year-old Chinedu Adim has been arrested for beating his eight-year-old daughter to coma in Awka.
Mr. Adim, a commercial tricycle operator who is a native of Lokpa, in Abia State said his wife abandoned him with two of their kids while witnesses alleged that he has since then been using hard substances which usually triggers him to brutalize the daughter.
The suspect however denied the allegations during interrogation, describing the daughter’s ugly experience as spiritual.
The suspect who revealed that he was formally a member of Anambra Vigilante Group, AVG, before he ventured into Keke business, married twelve years ago with two kids, a girl, Blessing, now eight years and a boy, six years.
He also disclosed that the wife left him eight years ago after his shop got burnt.
When asked what happened to the daughter, he replied that the eight-year-old girl woke up one morning with Injuries on her body but he was able to observe that while bathing her.
According to him, he queried her and she said she didn’t know how she came about the scars noting that she woke up to see lines on her body.
This, he said, has been a reoccurring event for three consecutive times before she was finally rushed to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka, where she went into coma and ever since has been on life support.
Reacting to this , the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Mrs. Ify Obinabo said the report she got said the suspect beat the victim to coma, describing his narrative as folk tales.
She collaborated that the girl has been in the hospital since yesterday after the father beat her to stupor, claiming she was beaten in the dream, as he thought she would die so as to cover his actions.
Mrs. Obinabo therefore urged parents to be mindful of the type of disciplinary measures they give to their children to avoid hurting them even as she encouraged parents and guardians to give punishment according to the age of the child.
While assuring her Ministry’s readiness to ensure the victim’s medical attention to ensure she survived, Mrs. Obinabo said the suspect would be handed over to the police for further interrogation and prosecution.
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