The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Imo State chapter have called on the Imo State Government and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately arrest and prosecute one Mr Confidence Amatobi, for allegedly assaulting his 2-month-old baby, Miracle.

Mr Amatobi was said to have assaulted little Miracle with a plastic hanger and broke the baby's arm for disturbing his sleep.

The incident led to the amputation of the fractured arm at the Pediatrics ward of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Owerri.

NAWOJ, NHRC and the aggrieved mother of baby Miracle, made the call for justice in Owerri the Imo State Capital.

Imo State Chairperson of NAWOJ, Dr Dorothy Nnaji who spoke to newsmen after visiting the amputated boy at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owerri, confirmed that the injury inflicted by the 31-year-old father, a native of Amurie in Isu LGA of the state, led to the amputation of the little boy’s right hand.

Mrs Nnaji who frowned at the dastardly cruel act of Mr Amatobi expressed shock that a father could assault his innocent child simply because he was crying and disturbing his sleep.

She disclosed that Mr Amatobi was reported to have repeatedly hit the baby with a plastic hanger to stop him from crying until the right hand broke.


"The perpetrator, Mr. Confidence Amatobi, who hails from Amurie in Isu L.G.A used a plastic hanger on the baby, simply because he was crying that the mother left to ease herself. He used wood and elastic bands to tie the baby's hand when he saw that hand was broken and swollen," Mrs Nnaji said.

"He locked the mother and baby to prevent her from talking to neighbours or seeking help. He also took her phone from her. After two days she found her way out and sought help from her neighbours. The guy was arrested by a vigilante but he escaped. By the time help came, the baby's hand was already decayed. The only option was to cut off baby Miracle's right hand from shoulder,"

"I feel for the 20 year old Favor Chikwe who is too young to go through all this stress just because she went to easy herself. I am calling on lmo State Judiciary and all spirited individuals and Government to give justice to this innocent boy whose only crime was that he cried like any other baby." she added.

Similarly, the Imo State Coordinator NHRC, Mrs Ukachi Ukah, while reacting to the incident also condemned the brutality and insisted that justice must be allowed to take its course.

Narrating her ordeal, the mother of Miracle, Mrs Favour Chikwe, 20, who hails from Idemili Community, Anambra State disclosed that she had left Miracle with his father on Friday, October 7, 2022, to use the convenience, when the incident happened.

Favour recalled that she overheard her baby crying uncontrollably and had to rush back to know the cause of her cry only for her to discover that his right hand was swollen and bone broken from the beating he received from his father.

Amatobi, it was learnt, confessed that the baby was disturbing him with his cry while he was sleeping and he had to try to stop him by battering him.


"Upon noticing that he has broken the baby’s hand, he used sticks and rubber bands to bind the broken bones together," she said.

"When l confronted him about what he did, he locked us in the room, to prevent me from telling people about his wicked deed or seek for help. He also collected my phone from me so that I will not call the neighbours."

She narrated how she managed to take the baby to hospitals in the community that refused to treat the baby before she took him to FMC Owerri where the amputation was done.

The woman appealed for support to save her child while calling on the state government, NHRC and other civil society organisations to assist her to get justice for her son.

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Where do ladies see and meet these kind of men ?

I meet men, and have met very good men but when I read monstrous acts such as this it makes me think maybe I am lucky or mother nature made me lack the quality of attracting vile beasts as these moulded as men.

I am grateful !

Women should stop getting entangled with lunatics.


Such horrendous act against a suckling for merely crying ? Shudders !


Such a cute innocent child maimed for life.

Goosebumps !

The first picture of the child with discoloured rottening hand is heartbreaking .

This poor child has seen and felt the trauma of most 40 year olds in the two days he was locked up .

Just complete the rituals and make another baby

That man will never know peace.

Not everyone deserves to be bless with a child, but nature is kind that it blesses both the qualified and non qualified.

A child that knows nothing is a victim of brutality and is left to life with one hand all his day's on earth. This implies that the man was equally beating the mother before she gave birth to this child. Sincerely I shaded tears when I read this news.

I know how I pamper my kid's and am ready to take a bullet for them, each time they fall sick, I wish it was transferable, so I can be the one to bear their sickness.

Some of us regrets why we were born of the kind parents we grew up with, why others are happy.

In the case of this man i can't help but say he should be arrested and imprisoned.

ADDITIONAL.
What about those that maltreats their house help at any slight provocation.
God is watching no one knows the pregnancy that will birth a king or has birthed a king. If your opportune working with people pls treat them well.

Chai. Pikin wey some people don dey pray for for years, even the one wey go disturb their sleep, dem never see.
Na him this idiot dey break the arm of the one wey him get. Chai.

What is really wrong with Igboland?

This broke my heart o.
I hope this little one gets justice.

Na wah oh. What exactly is d baby's offense? Which crime baby commit? Crying no be crime

Creamypie:
What exactly is d baby's offense

Can a 2-month-old child have an offence?

Think am

Many are mad.

"Upon noticing that he has broken the baby’s hand, he used sticks and rubber bands to bind the broken bones together," she said.



Bastard Idiooot

That man is mentally unstable...2 months old Baby...haba this is witchcraft

Why not chop off the man man dick, let him feel the kind of pain the innocent child is going through right now.

Such man is not a human , he should be kill immediately for this before he does more evil than this. Like WTF? Using hanger to beat a two month baby because it was disturbing your sleep? If this man is not killed , I won't be happy.

Which kind man be that, and people no dey there to break his own too?

Mynd44:

Can a 2-month-old child have an offence?

Think am

The baby offence is that it is crying.

So the father thought hitting a 2months old baby will stop it from crying?

descarado:

A child not an "it"

And this one passed through primary school

It is an acceptable pronoun for a child.

And to think u had to ask if i went through primary school.

If ur father sees what u wrote, he would have torn his name out from ur birth certificate

This are the type of men that should be used for rituals....

A baby's cry is like music to the parent's ears.
In this case, it obviously seems either the man is possessed by an evil spirit or in the habit of using hard drugs that made the harmless baby his Enemy Number 1.
Let them check well he is either mentally imbalanced or takes mkpurummiri

V

That one na father from hell

Noted.


Shocked to the marrow.....

This is pure evil, break the useless man arm too

If Men catch that Man na correct drilling e go collect.
E don disfigure that fine boy now.

God abeg let nothing like thing befall any of us.
what would warrant you be beat a small child like that? I can't fit too.

Why not just kill the innocent child. Now you have succeeded in turning the baby disabled at a tender age. God will judge you evil man from an evil region. Ipigs, evil and desperate people.
Tueeeeh