Father Arrested for Beating Son To Cure Him of Stubbornness

Chinedu Okeke has been nabbed by the police in Enugu for enslaving and repeatedly torturing his 14-year-old son, Kelechi. It was gathered by Punch that Okeke, who lives in the Trans Ekulu area of Enugu, constantly subjected the boy to various forms of physical and emotional abuse, citing Kelechi’s alleged stubbornness as the reason for the inhumane treatment.

It was learnt that Okeke habitually flogged the boy with wires and heavy sticks, purportedly in a bid to ‘beat the stubbornness out of him’.

Kelechi was tied with a rope, and made to kneel on stones in a dark room. Someone in the area reported the incident to the police, and they eventually stormed the boy’s family house to arrest Okeke on March 15, 2017.

Confirming the incident, Ebere Amaraizu, Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, said several fresh wounds, inflicted by Okeke, were found on Kelechi’s body when he was rescued.

”Okeke is always in the habit of subjecting the son to inhumane treatment, such as kneeling on stones with his hands tied together, and massive flogging with wires and other dangerous objects, thereby leaving his entire body scarred with injuries,” Amaraizu said.

Speaking further, Amaraizu revealed that Okeke was not living with Kelechi’s mother, who left him for undisclosed reasons. Okeke is currently living with the wife of a pastor, who left her husband to move in with him.

The said woman, who now lives with Okeke, already had four children for the pastor. Amaraizu said Okeke and his concubine, the pastor’s wife, turned Kelechi into a slave.

”Following the rescue of Kelechi with injuries and the arrest of Okeke, facts emerged that Kelechi’s mother is not living with the father, although there appears to be unresolved marital issues which left the little boy in the hands of the father.

Further findings revealed that Kelechi’s father is however living with a woman with four kids belonging to a certain pastor in Enugu.

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The woman has abandoned the pastor over a yet to be established issue and now lives with Kelechi’s father, and in that process allegedly turned the little boy to a slave,” Amaraizu added.

Narrating his ordeal to the police, the victim disclosed that he was subjected to constant torture for about one month before he was rescued.

Meanwhile, Okeke, who is currently in police custody, has claimed that the devil was responsible for the terrible treatment he subjected his son to. But he insisted that the boy was stubborn, adding he only tortured Kelechi in a bid to discipline him.

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