Father Kills His 11-Year-Old Son For Sleeping With 8-Year-Old Sister In Abuja (Photo)

A COMBINATION of shock and disbelief, like a
low, dark cloud, has enveloped the
neighbourhood where 34-year-old Solomon
(surname withheld) lives in the Tasha
Gwagwa area of the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja, with his family.
Almost in the same measure, a gentle wind
of sympathy continues to blow around the
family as it bears its grief over the
unintentional killing of their 11-year-old son,
by Solomon, in a bid to correct him for a
major error.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson
Inalegwu who confirmed the unfortunate
incident to Sunday Sun described it as
pathetic and a very troubling demonstration
of the decay that has crept into the Nigerian
society, and which calls for parents to keep
close tabs on the kind of visual materials
their children are exposed to at home
through movies.
At the State Criminal Investigation
Department of the Federal Capital Territory
Police Command, where he is being held,
Solomon has been bemoaning his action
and cursing the evil spirit that led his late
son into the grievous error of committing
Inbreeding with his eight-year-old sister
(name withheld).
As he recounted to Sunday Sun reporter in
Abuja, 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. But
then the devil took over, twisted the
situation to the point that the little boy went
into convulsion and then lost consciousness
the next day.
Benevolent neighbours of the family rushed
him to Gwarinpa General Hospital, where he
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.
According to Inalegwu, 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.
Visibly weighed down by the sad outcome
of the seeming punishment he administered
on the late boy, the bereaved father who
hails 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.”
When Sunday Sun visited Tasha Gwagwa
community, a neighbour of the bereaved
father, Ali Ahmed told Sunday Sun reporter:
“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.
He spoke further: “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: “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 the FCT Commissioner of Police
has said the matter would be charged to
court.