Children’s Day tragedy: Parents beat two kids to death

     Children’s Day tragedy: Parents beat two kids to death

As the nation celebrated Children’s Day yesterday, two children were allegedly beaten to death by their parents in Lagos State.
The incidents happened in Agege and Oregun areas of the state.
It was gathered that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in-charge of Pen Cinema Division while on patrol with his men received an anonymous  call reporting that a man, identified as Paul (surname withheld), a resident of Omitola Street, Agege  and his wife had beaten a 12-year-old boy, Onyedikachi Mbanozo, into coma.
The  boy later died out of severe bleeding and pains.
A Police source said the DPO, acting on the information, moved to the scene, arrested the suspects and recovered  the body of the deceased, which was later deposited in the mortuary.
Similarly, at the Oregun area of Ikeja a man allegedly hit his son identified as Bright, on the head with an iron belt for stealing N1,000.00 and he was rushed to Divine Private Hospital at Lawal Street, Oregun, where he was confirmed dead.
The corpse has been deposited at the Lagos State University Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja mortuary for autopsy.
Confirming the two tragic incidents, the Police image maker in the state, Ngozi Braide, said the two cases were still under investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba.
She warned parents to desist from beating their children as there are other ways to punish erring children.
She said: “Any parent who kills his or her child will go in for it and the law will take its course.The law will not consider if you are a parent or not;once you kill, you will be arrested and prosecuted.”