A three-year-old boy faces severe child abuse at the hands of his stepmother who allegedly fractured his thigh bone with a pestle.
An X user identified as @ikukuomac shared the disturbing account of child abuse in his neighbourhood, somewhere in Enugu state.
According to the post, @ikukuomac was alerted by a neighbour upon returning home from work about the toddler being unable to stand and in immense pain.
The father of the child, who was at work during the incident, was reportedly notified by neighbours and rushed to the Orthopedic Hospital, where his son was receiving treatment for the severe injury.
The eyewitness, a neighbour who allegedly heard the boy’s cries, reportedly intervened by breaking into the house to help the child. He then rushed the toddler to the hospital for urgent medical care, with further treatment being administered at an orthopaedic hospital.
How stepmother breaks stepson’s bone with pestle in Enugu
“Yesterday after I came home from work, I was in my balcony my almost opp neighbour called my name. He said I would like to have a word downstairs,so I locked my door and went down step.
He told me the wife of his opposite neighbour used pestle to break the lap bone of her 3yr old Step son yesterday evening 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Tears rolled down my eyes immediately…I asked what did the three year old old do to warrant using pestle to shatter his lap bone into two ???
I quickly called the neighbour who was a friend and I asked him what happened to Kaitochukwu. He told him, He was on the office when they asked him to rush to Orthopaedic Hospital that his son is in the hospital with a broken lap bone….
I asked did you ask the little boy who did it and he said yes that the step mom beat him…my neighbour that saw me in the balcony Told me he was the one that broke into there house when he had the little boy cry in there flat upon arrival the boy couldn’t stand and leg was dangling legs and swollen foot.
He quickly took the boy inside the car and ran to posh hotel after brief treatment, he was taken to Orthopaedic Hospital…While on the phone with my friend the three year old boy was crying uncontrollably 😭😭😭😭.”
