Man arrested for battering 10-year-old stepson over lost $1000
Mar 08, 2025
Kaieteur News- Police have arrested a man for allegedly battering his 10-year-old stepson causing him to have a bloodshot eye and swollen face.
The bloodshot eye of the 10-year-old child
Kaieteur News understands that the incident occurred on Wednesday at approximately 19:45h in Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD). Reports are that the man sent the child to the shop with $1000 to purchase an item. However, the child lost the money and was badly abused by his stepfather upon his return to their home.
The owner and landlord of the house the family lives in told Kaieteur News that Wednesday’s beating was not the first for the lad who has been enduring constant abuse at the hands of his stepfather.
“I have learned from one of the tenants that lives in front that this young kid is being abused by his stepfather, regularly abused by his step father, he (the stepfather) would normally hold his (the young child) head and push it against the concrete wall, he will cuff him, slap him, tear his clothes off and stuff like that and the mother will not do anything at all about it, she encourages it,” Kaieteur News was told.
The 52-year-old man explained that after the child lost the money, he returned to the house crying. “…the stepfather hold him, ripped his clothes off of him, throw him on the ground and sit over him and cuff him up and slap him up and stuff.”
The landlord said he was upset about the matter and on Thursday he visited the child’s school.
“When I learned about it because it is my property … I got angry and I went the next morning (Thursday) to (the child school) to see the teachers, and he was in class and the teachers call him out and the teachers examined him and so they saw his face swollen and his eye bloodshot,” the landlord recalled.
The landlord said he told the teachers to contact the Schools’ Welfare Department while he reports the matter to the police. Police arrested both the accused and the child’s mother. However, the boy’s mother was released because she is pregnant.
“This kind of thing does happen in a lot of different homes, and it’s being covered down and covered up, children are being abused by stepfathers, by their own mother … And this nonsense have to stop, because he (the suspect) could have killed that child in that house, you can look at that child, he is traumatize,” the angry landlord told this publication.
Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police Khalid Mandall confirmed that the man has been arrested but would only say, “(The) matter (is) under investigation.”
(Man arrested for battering 10-year-old stepson over lost $1000)
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