An Ebute Meta Magistrate’s court has arraigned a thirty nine-year-old Carpenter, Emmanuel Edet for allegedly beating his 12-year-old child, Samuel, to death with a belt.
The incident was said to have occurred on on February 11, 2014.
What led to the incident was that Emmanuel Edet had enrolled his son at a place where he could learn carpentry work but apparently the son had a different plan as Samuel’s boss had reported him to his father that his son had not been showing up at his workshop instead he was used to going to the beach to swim.
This in turn angered the father who decided to correct his son, which led to him to beating up his son, around 10pm with a belt, while his pregnant mother repo
rtedly locked the gate to prevent Samuel from running away while the punishment lasted.
The boy, according to the police fell down, hit his head against on floor and died before he could get medical attention.
Meanwhile a security man within the neighbourhood, who noticed when the parents were carrying their son into a van, alerted the police who later arrested the couple.
It was learnt that the six-month-old pregnant mother was released as the police said she had no hand in the death of the child.
Emmanuel was arraigned on one count of murder which reads, “That you, Emmanuel Edet, on February 11, 2014, at about 10pm, at Atican Beach, Okun-Ajah, Lekki, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Samuel Edet, aged 12 years, by beating him with a belt which made him fall down and hit his head against the floor.” His plea was not taken and he's remanded in prison pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution.
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