The Imo State Police Command, Okigwe Division have arrested a man who broke his two children’s bones and tortured them for their ‘mother’s sins.’
The man reportedly kept his children in chains, broke one of the children’s fingers with a hammer and poured salt in the bleeding wounds.
The incident was first reported by the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) on its Twitter handle.
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The post showed the man in a video, pouring pepper and salt on the children’s wounds as they sat crying outside a shop.
“The perpetrator said he was doing it to punish the children for ‘what their mother did’”, the NHRC tweeted.
Police spokesman Orlando Okwukwu confirmed the incident, saying that the man has been arrested.
