See what this woman (Grace Jacob) did to her own 10 years old boy, the innocent boy was tortured beyond recognition.
God said "Spare the rod and spoil the child" but he didnt say toture the child and mark him for life..A 29-year old woman, Mrs. Grace Jacob, has been arrested for battering her 10-year-old son, Emmanuel, and forcing him to sleep in the staircase of their home at night.
It was gathered that Victor was severely beaten by his mother at the slightest provocation, which led to deep injuries and cuts all over the boy’s body. The boy’s face is swollen with deep cuts on his cheeks.
According to Mrs. Esther Ogwu, the founder of Esther Child Foundation, she received a call from a resident in Egbeda to come quickly to rescue a boy who was being abused and tortured in the most dehumanising way by his mother.
“When we came, we met Victor in the staircase and that is where he sleeps. When I saw the wounds on his body, I couldn’t stand it and we had to arrest the woman and bring the boy to the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to take up the issue,” she explained.
.At the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, where the woman and her son were taken to, staff of the ministry were in shock when they saw the deep wounds on Victor’s body and could not believe that his mother could treat him like that.They described her as a wicked woman.
A top official of the ministry, who craved anonymity because she is not authorised to speak with pressmen, said the first thing the government would do was to write a letter to the management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, to urgently admit the boy and treat him so that he would not die.
When asked if Victor was truly her son, Mrs. Jacob said yes, saying that she regretted her action, admitting that she was guilty of beating her son in such a deadly manner.
She was in tears but her tears did not move officials of the WAPA ministry who were angry at the way the boy was maltreated by her.When asked, little Victor, who managed to speak in Pidgin English said his mother used to beat him with cable when he did something wrong.
However, the state government is considering prosecuting the mother under the child rights law, while Victor would be taken to one of the state’s rehabilitation homes for adequate care.
Like they say" the one who has the hat has no head" while some are crying for a child...another is beating her to death.......hmmmm life
The mother, Grace needs to be flogged for doing that to her child or any other child. Kai, i support spanking o but there is a major difference between spanking and being evil. May God save that evil woman. And where is the child's father and other family members? I soo love our African culture because i know that a couple do not raise a child alone, it takes a village to raise a child. So, where are other family members, grandparents eh?
ReplyDeleteExactly my point, but it seems the boy's biological father is not in the picture hence the mother's wicked flogging...this is just too much to inflict on a young boy...
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