Abused 9-Year-Old Boy Abandoned By Mum In A Petrol Station
A nine-year-old boy, identified only as Kingsley, was on Thursday abandoned at a filling station at Adetola bus stop on Ijaiye Road, Agbado, Lagos State, by his mother, the Punch reports.
According to the media, it was learnt that the mother, Blessing, allegedly tortured him for greeting a neighbour. She was said to have brought the boy from Ojuelegba, where they live and dumped him at the station around 7am.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Blessing left the area after telling the child that she wanted to buy some items at a nearby shop. Some Good Samaritans, however, later bought food for the kid before he was taken to the Ijaiye Police Station around 11am.
Kinglsey’s body was full of scars for which he held his mother responsible.
“Mummy beat me because I greeted our neighbour. She and the neighbour are quarrelling and she warned me not to greet her. She beat me with a stick when she saw me with the woman,” said the little boy who has been a victim of abuse and mal-nutrition.
“My mother and I moved to Lagos from Calabar (Cross River State) after she divorced my daddy.
“I live in Ojuelegba with her and my stepfather, Jonathan. She beats me every day.
“She will give me lashes for not waking up early to do domestic chores. At times, she won’t give me food to punish me.”
An employee of the filling station, who gave his name only as Deji, lamented Kingsley’s situation. He said the mother would be attacked by an angry mob if she came back.
“I don’t know what the world is turning to. When some families are still praying to have children, a mother is maltreating her own to the point of dumping him. What could he have done to warrant being treated in such a heartless manner?
“This place was crowded in the morning and we did not know when she dumped him. He was sitting in a tricycle when I approached him. Some angry youths just left here. They would have given his mother the beating of her life if she had come back.”
A Good Samaritan, who did not want his name in print, said he saw the boy sitting helplessly in a corner in the filling station. He added that the boy was so hungry that he gulped the food and drink that were bought for him.
The Supervisor of the filling station, Adeola Olufunwa, said she was nearly detained at the station on the matter.
She said, “I was the one who noticed the boy’s presence around us and I alerted my colleagues.
“But funny enough, the police wanted to detain me for a case I knew nothing about.”
The Lagos Police Spokesperson, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, promised to get back to our correspondent.
Source: punchng.com
Wht is ths world turning into,,ths woman is a witch,,,,when some families are praying to have a baby some are busy maltreating the one God gave them,,heartless woman..
What a heartless monster of a mother
I doubt that she’s d real mother that gave birth to that boy, it’s not fair to do it to sum1 else child talk more of your own child you bore? Hmmmm she must be a witch truly
wicked woman.
Is she really the mother of that boy? I do not think so, even if she’s not the real mother she shouldn’t have treated him that way…So pathetic
Useless mother….
Thank God he has been rescued
I don’t think she is his real mother tho’ how can she do this? Hmmmmm
Lord have mercy
I don’t believe that woman is the boy’s real mum or is she trying to make the boy suffer for her problems with his dad?hmmm a woman that can do this to her child is capable of murder
Really, not every woman is a mother.
Some women are better off to be witches than being a mother
There are some stories I wuld read eeh I wuld ask God to show no mercy dis is one of dem
She is the real mother just that she has a heart of stone and does all these things because she is with another man….She is pleasing the man and displeasing her son,crazy woman.
Wen a mad woman becomes a mum
Some have food but cannot eat…. when the boy becomes a big man tomorrow she will come and claim child……wicked woman.
Message.. Wickedness of de highest order
She doesn’t worth being a mother any way I don’t think she is bt if she is eventually the mother, then she should be hang
u sure she gave birth to him dint steal him
This fine boy? I think the woman is sick.
l think she is his step mum bcs l dnt see what could make a real mum behave dat way
I doubt she is his biological mother
Wow! Pure wickedness
This is a witch mother
Na wa. Thank God for good samaritans.
I just wish the angry youths met her,they would have given her the beating of her life.Wicked mother
Na wa o…..i can’t imagine such cruelty