TRAGIC: Father beats his own biological son to death

It was a tragic moment as a 39-yrs old man known as Inimgba, a resident of Amadi-Ama area in Port Harcourt, in River State, who called himself a father beats his 7-yr old son to death over theft allegation. 

It was a tragic moment as a 39-yrs old man known as Inimgba, a resident of Amadi-Ama area in Port Harcourt, in River State, who called himself a father beats his 7-yr old son to death over theft allegation.

Punch reported that the 39-yr old man, Inimgba, accused his 7-yr-old son, identified as George of stealing his N3,200 on Friday, May 19, 2017, and in trying to discipline him, he used a cutlass to inflict cuts on the victim after beating him up with a plank.

During the beating, the boy was said to have lost consciousness and was discovered dead the next day.

 

He (Inimgba) has been arrested by the operative of the River State Police Command for murder. Also arrested alongside, Inimgba’s wife, Blessing who happened to be George’s step-mother for failing to rescue the boy from his father.

The police report that Inimgba had wanted to conceal the death of his son and give him an hurried burial but for a carpenter who raised the alarm on sighting the injuries on the boy.

Inimgba, popularly known as Oyinbo, was said to have invited the carpenter to his apartment to make a coffin for the burial of the child but when the carpenter saw the injuries on the body while measuring it, he raised an alarm leading to the arrest of the suspect and his wife.

His elder brother's wife who identified herself as K.K., said George requested water at the point of death, but the father continued the beating.

She said the boy’s attempts to explain that he used part of the money to feed himself because he was hungry fell on deaf ears.

 

According to her, “He beat the boy for about two hours. The boy was crying and saying, ‘Daddy, give me water, I cannot walk again.’

The boy was saying ‘Sorry Daddy’ and the man continued to ask, ‘Where is the money?’ But the boy said he was hungry and used the money to buy bread.

 

A Port Harcourt based psychologist known as  Sri George, who first shared the story on Instagram, said he had met with the late George on the street a few days before his death as people gathered around him after he was caught stealing a snack on his way to school.

According to Sri George he wrote:

“What a cruel world. Last Tuesday, between the hours of 8 am to 9 am, I saw a crowd of people around my vicinity gathered around this little boy. So, I stopped by and inquired what happened.

They told me that this little boy on his way to school stole a doughnut from a shop. The people whom he stole the doughnut from even gave him more of it and a bottle of drink and asked him to go.

They all claimed that his father and stepmother have the habit of starving and beating him up on a daily basis. I saw so many scars on his body.

I took the boy to my house, interviewed him, and he told me how he had been suffering since his mother left his father.

I gave him some biscuits, asked him to come and eat at my place anytime and promised to see his father this week before he left for school, only to learn this morning (Saturday) that his father has beaten him to death.”

A neighbor also narrated one of the past incidence that Inimgba was arrested last year he burnt George’s hand in the stove. He said:

“He was arrested, detained for three days and was made to write an undertaking. It was at that point that the boy started going to school for the first time.”

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Nnamdi Omoni, has confirmed the incident and said the matter was being investigated, adding that the man and the wife were in police custody