A Chief Justice of the Peace’s Court docket in Enugu East charged 47-year-old Anthony Onyeukwu over the dying of his 11-year-old houseboy, Goodluck John.
Confirming the event, the Commissioner of Gender, Ngozi Enih, disclosed on Sunday that the transfer is a part of the state’s ongoing efforts to fight little one abuse.
In response to the Commissioner, Onyeukwu’s arrest adopted a tip-off from the ministry’s whistleblower channels, suggesting that John’s dying resulted from abuse in the home he lived in.
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Additional into the investigation, it was revealed that Onyeukwu was alleged to have buried John’s stays in Abia State with out reporting the dying to the authorities, claiming the boy died from an sickness on the Park Lane Hospital in Enugu.
Nonetheless, the hospital information contradicted this declare, displaying no admission or deposition of the corpse.
Following the arrest, the Police Prosecutor, Inspector Calista Ifeanyi argued that Onyeukwu’s actions had been punishable below Enugu State’s Revised Legal Code.
The cost sheet marked: CME/631C/2024 learn, “That you just, Onyeukwu Anthony, ‘m’ on fifteenth day of October 2024, at about 20:30 hours at No. 4, Mike Onyeka Shut, Loma Linda Extension, Maryland, Enugu, inside the jurisdiction of this honourable courtroom, did unlawfully kill one Goodluck John ‘m’ aged 11 years and thereby dedicated an offence punishable below Part 274 (1) of the Legal Code, CAP 30, Vol. II, Revised Legal guidelines of Enugu State of Nigeria, 2004.”
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