A father has
allegedly beaten his four-year old son to death, padlocking his mouth to
prevent him from shouting while the beating lasted.
The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at 7, Adetola
Adelaja Street, Meiran area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
P.m News gathered that the man, Mr. Chris Elvis, who claims
to sell
computer accessories, allegedly locked his son, Godrich in the room,
padlocked his mouth and beat him to death with an object that inflicted deep
cuts all over his body, claiming that the boy was an Ogbanje (evil child that
dies and reincarnates repeatedly).
The man landed in trouble when his landlady, Mrs Popoola who
was in the market, was informed that something was happening in her house. She
rushed home and discovered that the boy had been beaten to death by his father.
She rushed to Meiran Police Station to report the matter.
The police stormed the house around 9 O’clock last night to arrest Elvis who
was about to escape.
After allegedly killing the boy, he locked him in one of his
rooms. He told the police that nothing happened but when the police forced the
locked room open, they found the dead boy with padlock in his mouth.
Husband of the landlady, Mr. Olusola Adejumo told P.M.NEWS
that the deceased boy was four years old and that the man had been acting
strange since he packed into the compound last year.
According to him, when Elvis came into the compound about
six months ago, he came with his children and wife and that he claimed to sell
computer accessories, adding that in the first two weeks of his stay in the house,
he beat up his wife thoroughly.
He said he had gone to the police station to report the
incident and that the police invited them to settle the matter and warned Elvis
not to beat his wife again or he would be arrested.
Adejumo explained that sometime ago, the man travelled with
his family and did not return with his wife, but came with the four-year old
boy and another woman, whom he claimed was now his wife because he had parted
ways with his former wife.
He said that yesterday, his new wife rushed out of the house
shouting for help that the man wanted to kill his son, adding that the man came
out of the house and chased his wife with a cutlass, calling the woman a witch.
It was gathered that the man came back into his room and
locked it, padlocked the boy’s mouth and beat him till he died.
The police at Meiran took the boy’s corpse away and
deposited it at the Ota General Hospital, while the man was detained and would
be transferred to Area ‘M’ Police Division in Lagos later for further
investigation.
After the incident on Monday, the police also arrested the
landlady who came to report the matter at the police station and detained her
till Tuesday morning, while allegedly demanding for N50,000 to bail the
innocent woman.
A tenant in the house, Apostle Freedom Damian said Elvis had
been a strange man in the house as he do not talk to anybody and was always
keeping to himself and nobody could ask him questions.
He described the murder of the boy as gruesome and cruel.
Tenants living in the same compound with Elvis never knew
his name and could not tell P.M.NEWS reporter his name because he does not
interact with people.
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