Father Kills Teenage Son, Buries In Shallow Grave Over Stealing
Operatives of the Ondo State Police Command have apprehended a 34-year-old man for allegedly killing his son, Tope, 14, over stealing.
The suspect, Monday Elela, who is a father of seven, allegedly buried the son in a shallow grave in their home in Ajowa-Akoko, Akoko North West Local Government Area of the state.
Elela, a bricklayer and farmer in connivance with his wife, who is on the run, purportedly committed the crime in order to put a permanent stop to the embarrassment their deceased son had been bringing to the family.
According to the suspect, who was paraded along with some suspected criminals at the state headquarters of the Nigerian Police in Akure, the state capital, he did not kill his son but only beat him after he escaped from the custody of the Amotekun Corps.
“Of my seven children, Tope has been the one giving us problems and causing embarrassment for the family. He always breaks into people’s houses. He is known around where we live, and he has been arrested many times by the police and Amotekun, but he won’t change.
“While he was in the custody of the Amotekun corps the last time he was arrested, he escaped from the cell. He broke the iron bars and jumped the fence to escape.
After he escaped, we only spanked him with our hands for his wrongdoings and the embarrassment he had been causing us. But we didn’t realise that he was already injured while with the Amotekun people.
“After we spanked him, he ate his food, took his bath, and went to sleep. It was at daybreak that we instructed his younger brother to wake him so that we could all go to the farm. It was when he didn’t respond that we realised that he had died.
“I quickly rushed to where he was sleeping along with his mother, and we confirmed that he had already died. So, we took his body and buried it in our backyard. We didn’t kill him. He is number three among my children.
