A two-year-old boy who was allegedly being maltreated and starved by his father and step mum has been rescued in Delta State, IgbereTV reports.

The child's plight was brought to social media by a Facebook user, Kwin Oge. She shared photos of the child on her page with the caption;

''Mr kwin Oge wall

This is Zino. A 2 year old child whom the biological mother dropped with his biological father and step mother at No 113 Okumagba Avenue, Ojabugbe junction off Deco Road, Warri, Delta State. Since then the father and step mother has been giving this child all sorts of maltreatment and starvation. Please I call on the Delta state government and all human right activists to come to the aid of this child as the father and step mother has refused neighbours from feeding the boy even when they have refused to give him food. They lock him up in dark room and beat him up when he receives help from neighbours. Neighbours now are afraid to help so they don’t end up killing him.

Please come to the aid of this child.

Please help repost till he gets an helper''

Activist Harrison Gwamnishu got involved in the case and has helped to rescue the child. He gave an update about the child on his Facebook page. According to him, the boy has been taken to the hospital while the father has been arrested.

He wrote;

"2-YEAR OLD #SaveZINO RESCUED IN WARRI.

You called and we responded swiftly despite health challenges.

TEST CARRIED OUT
> HIV > NEGATIVE
> BLOOD: 30%
> SUGAR LEVEL> 68
> MALARIA > 1

He's malnourished and currently on admission. Father arrested and detained at B Division Warri.

Abuse and neglect hit kids hard and abused children are in no shape to defend their rights. Behind Bars and other passionate Nigerians are always here to stand in the gap and represent their interest.

We appreciate other Human Rights team that joined in this intervention Israel Joe CAHR and WARRI Aproko for using his platform to sensitize the public.

Special thanks to our BEHIND BARS INTERVENTION TEAM led by Ejiroghene Abigail Loromeke.

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#rehabilitation #rescue

Gwamnishu Emefiena Harrison
Founder, Behind Bars"

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God pls help us

So bad

E no go better for the mama and papa

Both husband and the step mother should be sentence to death by hanging

How can you treat an helpless child this manner, did he ask to be born? Hope the father and stepmother has been arrested by now?

Why give agbalumo (a very acidic fruit) to a hungry malnourished child?

So sad. Some men don't just have sense. They allow wives to make them hate their kids

My God will punish this boy's mother.

I can't believe a woman will be heartless enough to abandon her own baby with her husband and his new wife just to frustrate his new home.

It is the height of wickedness to put the liability of your child on a woman whose only crime was to assist you in nurturing your husband.

In civilized climes, she will be arrested for neglect.
Women must get this right.
A child is first and foremost the responsibility of the woman who bore him and not the man who scored him.

It's a shame; our world will only be a better place when women learn to share preek in peace.

Like hope like zino..
Now imagine if this boy becomes someone really important tomorrow which I pray by God's grace he will and the father comes begging say na devil and the stepmum cause am, I go advice am to give the papa the same devil's treatment...
How can you starve a 2yrs old?
I remember last year wey be say my 3 square meal na rationed garri with kuli, I still dey which say I fit chop the garri belleful.. Now imagine a 2 yrs without food!!!!

God go punish all fathers making their kids go through hard times intentionally

What!....2 Years old
Theyve got no pity for d kid
This is absolute wickedness.....the boy is badly malnourished :-and look older than normal

Meow meow.


I’m not impressed...


Is it after the rescue they give him Agbalumo

Biological father

What a world we live in.....

Very good

The heart of man is desperately wicked. What haz an innocent child done 2 deserve dis sort of maltreatment?
If dat demonic step mum of his no con born now, she go de run from pillar to post, accusing everyone accusable forgetting how u maltreated d one God gave u 2 look after.

Bastards! Thunder strike both adults that committed this useless crime.

Q

Step mother!?!?

I read yesterday a thread where a guy dunce was seeking advice to marry two wives.His reasons?

Say woman deal with am and now e don get small change he gatz marry two wives.
I just read the thread,shake my head move to the next thread.For the guy mind him don arrive

First wife go carry ya picture go Esan, Akwa Ibom,Ibadan, Calabar put am for shrines while second wife go carry ya picture go kogi, nassarawa,Enugu,ijebu ode, put am for shrines.
Normally women Sabi Waka, talk more of say them need solve problem,no place them leg no go enter.O boy ya picture and your children pics go full every shrines and fake prophetic churches wey full naija

This is tooo bad!
Please how can i donate something, even if its just 100K...

This boy will have story to tell in the next 15,yrs. Ur future is bright young boy!

Some people are very earthless. Lalasticlala try and adopt the child now

Inhumane acts

Olunmercy56:
Both husband and the step mother should be sentence to death by hanging

Temper justice with mercy chief Justice Mercy

Wickedness

If I were a judge, the father's punishment will be more severe than the stepmom's.
What kind of love do you have for a woman (stepmom) that makes you maltreat your OWN child?

Why was the stepmom not arrested too? Congratulations boy for making it out of the lion's den. You will live long..

The entire earth has been contaminated in such a way that the heart of a man has been wired in such a way in order to share the same DNA with the devil herself

Well, thanks be to God that he has been rescued.....

dominique:
How can you treat an helpless child this manner, did he ask to be born? Hope the father and stepmother has been arrested by now?

Why give agbalumo (a very acidic fruit) to a hungry malnourished child?

The agbalumo moment is probably the moment captured by the camera. They must have given him something better to eat..Maybe na him ojukokoro make dem add agbalumo

NaijaOlosho:
Wickedness

try and adopt him now

How humans can be so heartless towards each other, especially children, is beyond me.