A pregnant woman caught by the anambra state ministry of women and social welfare was seen to have physically assaulted ,brutalized and battered a seven year old nephew for failing to recite the English alphabet (A,B,C,D…) in the state.
It was gathered that the victim, identified as Sunday was taken to the office of the state women and social welfare commissioner, Ify obinabo , on Tuesday, 16, by some resident of the state who saw him after been brutalized by his guardian, Mrs Abigail eguta.
The pregnant woman who is nursing a child ,is reportedly the biological sister of the boy who she brought to live with her barely a year ago.
The victim is said to be the child of a single mother but lives with mrs eguta from ikwo in ebonyi state.
It was gathered that the boy, whose body is dotted with scars of previous injuries inflicted on him by his guardian, had been out of school for a long time.
When she was questioned by the women and social welfare commissioner as to why she battered the little boy in such a manner, mrs. Eguta claimed she beat the boy for eating the fish she bought for Sunday meal.
But when she was asked if that was the only time that she beat the boy, the 24yrs old woman confessed that she also beat him on Monday for not reciting the English alphabet correctly, adding that it was the main reason she wounded him.
However, mrs. Eguta claimed she was very sorry and that she didn’t intend to inflict injuries on the boy’s eyes or make him blind but she mistakenly did so, please, forgive me, it is the handiwork of the devil. “She said.