Samuel Onyeme, 17, was reportedly beaten and imprisoned in a dog cage on Sunday for going to see Miss Anastasia Celestine, a female classmate.
According to PUNCH Metro, the event occurred at approximately 6 p.m. when Onyeme went to visit his female classmate at her home.
On Monday, Mrs. Onyeme, the victim’s mother, told our correspondent that she had an unpleasant experience at Mr. Celestine’s place.
She stated, “My son, Samuel, a 17-year-old Senior Secondary student of Redeemers International High School, Asaba, Delta State, on Sunday, visited his classmate, Anastasia Celestine, at her residence after she invited him.”
“My son said they were having a discussion outside the house of Mr Celestine when he was brutally assaulted by her father and his two sons.
“They attacked him on the street, dragged him into their compound, and inflicted severe physical injuries on him. You see his head, he said they used wooden planks and locked him inside a dog cage.
“During the assault, they confiscated his mobile phone and called me (mother) deceiving me into coming to the scene. Upon my arrival, I was deprived of seeing him for two hours.”
According to her, when Jessica, her daughter, attempted to re-enter the compound after trying to get help outside, she was also attacked by Celestine family members.
“The situation escalated when Ben, the other of my sons, who is the elder brother to Samuel, contacted a family friend, who then reached out to a human rights organisation before they mobilised police, officers were mobilised to rescue Samuel from the dog cage around 10:00 pm that night.”
A human rights activist named Mr. Victor Ojei, who reported the event to the Delta State Police Command, on Tuesday, went on to say that he called the police before Samuel was freed from the dog cage and called the act barbaric and inhumane.
According to the provisions of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Laws and Nigerian Criminal Law, Ojei demanded in a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Delta State Police Command, that Mr. Celestine and his sons be immediately investigated and prosecuted for kidnapping, unlawful detention, assault, and attempted murder.
It was discovered that Samuel, the victim, is presently undergoing medical care at the Asaba Specialist Hospital due to the psychological and bodily harm he sustained during the incident.
When contacted, SP Bright Edafe, the state’s police public relations officer, stated that he had not yet received the incident report at the time this report was filed.
Source: punchng.com