A 14-year-old boy identified as Terkura has been beaten to death by his late father’s younger sister in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, for allegedly stealing N50 to buy biscuits.
According to a report the neighbours who want to remain anonymous revealed that Terkura, who is staying with her aunty at a low level, has been going through a series of maltreatment by her aunty, who is supposed to be his caregiver in the absence of his father.
According to them, what led to Terkura’s death was that after being thoroughly beaten by her aunty with bruises all over her body, the said aunty left her in the pool of his blood to the village and instructed that Terkura should not be giving food and also not allow to sleep inside her room.
Terkura, also known as Aboy, was sleeping hungry in the cold Varanda. He was becoming weaker and weaker by the day, and her aunty’s neighbours called her, but she refused to come back and attend to him. However, the neighbours decided to rush him to the hospital in her absence, seeing his condition. Before they could commence treatment, he gave up the ghost.
Meanwhile, Terkura’s Mother, related that her son Terkura was initially living with her and his late grandmother before moving to his aunty, who claimed that she would train him in school as his late brother instructed him before he died.
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However, in tears, she mentioned receiving the news of the death of Terkura yesterday evening with rude shock and immediately rushed over.
According to her, “Terkura was staying here with us it was when he was about eight years and after the death of his father, the aunty came severally begging us to release the boy to her so that she will put him in school as instructed by his late brother before he died and that was why we released him to her.
A year later, we received a report that the woman was maltreating him to the extent that she beat him to a coma. Her neighbours reported her to the Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare Ministry. They came and arrested the woman and took Terkura from her; a few months later, Terkura was released to her on the pretence that she wanted to put him back in school, which she didn’t do till his date.
