INCREDIBLE: DAD BEAT HIS 7-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TO DEATH FOR EATING PLATE OF RICE

 Kingsley Ekeret, 29, native of Nto Osung, Akwam-Ibom state,is currently cooling  been detained at the Homicide section of the Rivers State Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, for allegedly beating his seven- year-old daughter to death, for eating his plate of rice.

According to the source, the suspect was saddled with the responsibility of catering for his three children alone, after his wife reportedly abandoned him.
He returned home at about 7pm

 On April 12, 2014, the suspect returned home hungry, and went for the pot of rice he had prepared before leaving for work only to meet an empty pot!  He got angry and descended heavily on Favour her daughter, mean while explanations by the ailing child that she shared the food with her siblings when they were hungry fell on deaf ears. The neighbours said the beating aggravated the health of Favour who eventually died hours later.

On noticing the motionless state of his daughter, Kingsley placed her body at a corner of his one room apartment in Obeama, Oyigbo Local Government Area where his two other children of ages two and three respectively were sleeping.   He, thereafter, wrapped the corpse in one of his clothes,armed with a shovel, he reportedly dug a shallow grave behind his apartment where he buried the remains of Favour at the wee hours of the next day and went about his normal business.

 However, the caretaker who noticed the disappearance of Favour, demanded for her whereabouts   from her father; chalantly he told the care-taker that his daughter took ill and was rushed to a hospital in Umuebulu community where she died.  

Curious, the caretaker insisted on seeing the corpse, promising to assist in providing money to bury her, a request the suspect refused to oblige, the caretaker later informed another  neighbour. While the accusations ensued, policemen attached to Afam Police division who were on patrol were flagged down, consequent upon which Kingsley was arrested and later transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department.

In his statement to operatives of the Homicide section, Kingsley exonerated himself from the crime, giving rather different accounts as to how his daughter died. At first, he said: “She died as a result of neglect by her mother. She left me to carter for my three children alone. I usually go out everyday to toil for what they will eat. She apparently died out of neglect.” incoherent with his words, he also said: “Maybe she was poisoned. You see, being poor, I deposited my telephone with a Hausa man that sells rice, with a promise to collect it back when I pay.   It was the rice I prepared for them that morning, without knowing it was poisoned.”

The truth about his alleged involvement was later unfolded when his parents visited him at the SCID. His father was said to have told operatives that Kingsley called him on the phone, informing him that he had mistakenly killed his daughter.

 Mr Tunde Ogunsaki, who described the act as a violation of the child’s right to survival and development as well as lack of parental care and protection said the suspect would need to go through psychiatric test apparently to ascertain his mental state before he would be charged to court. His assertion followed claims that Kingsley might be mentally deranged.

Source: Vanguard.ng