The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested on Ayo Yahaya, 43, and his wife Khadijat, 30, for the violence meted on a child of less than 2year in Abuja.
The child is Mr. yahaya’s son from his first marriage that ended less than six months ago. The little boy had his hands, buttocks and penis burnt by his stepmother, Khadijat.
It was gathered that the boy had faced loads of maltreatment including starvation since the father forcefully took him away from his biological mother recently.
The little boy was said to have been starved from morning till 2pm on the fateful day and he crawled to the kitchen where he saw some wraps of Moi-Moi and decided to help himself with one.
No sooner had he managed to open one than the Khadijat arrived and descended on him. The woman used her bathroom slippers to flog and design the little boy’s body.
She then proceeded to peel a tuberof yam, poured it inside a pot, added water and salt to the yam, and placed it on fire. When the yam was done, she grabbed this little boy, held both hands and deeped them in the hot boiling water.
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The boy’s shout for help and cry of agony drew the attention of neighbours who came to his rescue, but it was too late. The father returned home without doing anything.
It took public spirited individuals to bring this to the front burner and NAPTIP then intervened on Friday with the support of the good Samaritans and the child was rescued.
He has gone through a successful surgery at a specialist hospital in Abuja through the support of same good Samaritans.
