Man beats 11-yr-old son to death for sleeping with 8-yr-old sister

A 34-year-old man identified simply as Solomon, has been arrested by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, for allegedly beating his 11-year-old son, Victor, to death, in a bid to correct him after he allegedly caught the kid having sex with his eight-year-old sister.



The suspect, a resident of Tasha Gwagwa area of Abuja, according to the Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, Wilson Inalegwu, had caught the two kids engaging in the unholy act and in a bid to punish Victor, Solomon reportedly beat the boy till he gave up the ghost.

Recounting the sad episode in his cell at the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Command, Solomon said he is cursing the evil spirit that led his late son into the grievous error of committing incest with his sister which led to the sad occurrence.

Narrating how it all happened, the Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, native said he had come one day in April, 2016, and saw his young son engaging in the 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 continued that in his anger and a bid to punish the boy, he picked up a stick  beat him severely and in the process, the boy began convulsing and then lost consciousness the next day.

He was rushed to the Gwarinpa General Hospital by the neighbours where he died soon after he got to the hospital.

Solomon who had gone out the day the boy lost consciousness, was summoned to the hospital by phone and when he got to the hos­pital, he was told his son had died from internal bleeding as a result of the severe beating he had given him the  previous day.
He was detained by the doctor who called in the police from the Gwarinpa police station, and the suspect was arrested.

“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,” the distraught father said.