Another weird story! According to a shocking report by
PM News, a father beat his 4 year old son to death and padlocked his mouth to
prevent him from shouting while the beating lasted. The full report below...
The incident occurred on Monday
afternoon at 7, Adetola Adelaja Street, Meiran area of Lagos. It was 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 on
Monday 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 on Monday, 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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