A man identified as Adepoju has allegedly beaten one of his daughters called Sarah to a coma for collecting chinchin from a neighbour.
The incident happened penultimate Sunday in the Orile Abata area of Ifo Local Government, Ogun State.
It was learnt that Adepoju and the mother of the six-year-old girl had been separated for over two years.
Bystanders were said to have quickly alerted the police and Adepoju was promptly apprehended.
Sources said the father of four was involved in a similar incident late last year when he mercilessly beat one of his children in the neighbourhood.
A source quoted Sarah as saying: ‘’I collected chinchin from someone when I was hungry and had no food to eat. My father saw me while I was eating the chinchin and started beating me till I passed out. Our father only provides food for me and my siblings once in a day, especially in the morning.
‘’At times, he would give us soaked garri as meal till the next day. Our neighbours are the ones giving us good food whenever we are hungry and our father would not allow us to go out of our apartment.’’
It was gathered that one of Sarah’s older siblings, Adedolamu, who fled from home now works as a porter at the popular Ifo market, following incessant assault and starving received from their father.
A community leader, who asked not to be named said that Adepoju had been warned several times by the leadership of the community to desist from visiting cruelty on his children, but he was always recalcitrant.
Contacted on his mobile telephone, the spokesman of Ogun State Police Command, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he was in a meeting and promised to get back to our correspondent. He was unable to do so at press time.
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The man is not meant to become a father. He should be behind bars so as to meditate on how to become a good father to his children.

His own don too much abeg...

No be him go first divorce nah, and no be him go first born 4 pikin...

E no worth to be father at all at all...

The man no gree feed them pikin, e con dey beat them join. Heartless!

If e no ready to take responsibility, comot am for dem pikin lives... Ptcheeeeeew!