#Sad ... Mechanic #father burns daughter’s eyes, #private parts with Hot iron

A horrible father, Surakat Idowu, has been arrestedfor allegedly brutalising his five-year-old daughter with a hot iron in the Ikotun area of the, Lagos state.

The 45-year-old Idowu, who separated from his wife in 2013, allegedly tortured the girl with an iron in the face and in the private parts on Monday.

Her offenses was that her father asked her to dispose faeces in a potty into the latrine, but she poured it on the floor instend. That anger the auto mechanic, to carry a hot ironand used it on her

A neighbour, who witnessed the incident, reported at the Ikotun Police Division and the suspect was arrested. The victim, who is said to be in a nursery school, was reportedly blinded by the burns she suffered on the face, while her private parts were swollen.

The neighbour said, “The mechanic had a quarrel with his wife and divorced her in 2013 when the girl was just two years old. On that Monday, he asked her to go and dispose of her faeces in a potty in a latrine at the backyard of the house. But the area was slippery and the girl fell, splashing the faeces on the floor.

“The father became angry and got a hot iron. He began to beat her with the hot surface of the iron until the girl’s face became swollen. We tried to caution him, but he would not listen. That was how the matter got to the police.”

The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, had directed that the case be transferred from the Ikotun Police Division to the Gender Unit at the command headquarters, Ikeja.

#Sad ... Mechanic #father burns daughter’s eyes, #private parts with Hot iron