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Father beats boy, 11, with rolling pin, electrical wires
A West Coast Demerara boy who “wet” his bed was beaten by his father with a rolling pin and electrical wires this past week.
It was the latest in a series of beatings the boy has been receiving at the hands of his father. The boy’s mother left the home after she was fed up with the violence being meted out to her in the home. But when she left home, the man started to beat their son.
The distraught young man who is constantly beaten by his father.
“I don’t know why he does beat me sometimes,” the distraught boy told Kaieteur News. ‘Sometimes, people does just tell he things and he does just start beating me; he don’t ask no questions.”
This week, the mother heard that her boy was beaten with a rolling pin and wires and wanted the violence to stop.
The matter is engaging the attention of the Police, while the boy is being treated for injuries at the West Demerara Regional Hospital. The boy was first taken to the Leonora Police Station by a Welfare Officer, then to the West Demerara Regional Hospital.
The boy said that last Tuesday night, he was taken to a cricket match with his father and step-mother. They got home late, and as he was thirsty, the boy said he had a drink of water and went to bed.
The next morning, it was discovered that he urinated the bed. That’s when the father unleashed his anger, pounding the boy’s finger with the rolling pin and beating him with electrical wires. The boy, who last placed second in his exams and is gearing up to write the Grade Six Assessment, said that he is beaten almost every week, and for things he does not understand.
“Sometimes he does lift me up and dash me down, and I don’t know why. Most times people would tell him things that I behave bad and so, but he don’t ask me nothing.”
The boy said he no longer wishes to live with his father. “I like my father, but he does beat me too bad,” the boy said.
His mother is looking to intervene with the help of Welfare Officers and the Police.
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