THREE-YEAR BOY BRUTALLY BEATEN UP BY STEP-FATHER

Three-Year Boy

Brutally beaten up by step-father

(A shocking incident)

     A three-and-a-half year old boy, who was tortured by his stepfather for four days after shutting him inside a room, was rescued by neighbours when he managed to come out of the house yesterday, police said. Anshad,child of Sabeena from her first marriage, was beaten with leather belt and scratchy-edged wood by his stepfather  Shaji following family quarrels, sources said.
  He also used to beat his wife often, according to neighbours. The child, with serious lash marks and open wounds all over his bodySources said there were serious problems between the husband and wife and they had been living apart for some time  and reunited only recently Shaji, who had been in the Gulf for a few years, is working as an auto driver. He is absconding since the incident, police said.

(Shaji-step father)

.       Sabeena told the police that Anshad was assaulted using a belt and a piece of firewood. There are telling tale marks of the brutal treatment on the shoulder and arms of the kid. Anshad told the police that his father beat him up for not writing the first letter of the Malayalam alphabet. But Sabeena said the boy was tutored by his father to say so and that she herself was beaten by Shaji. He had threatened to kill her if she had spoken about it, Sabeena said. The kid was locked up for four days and was assaulted. The incident came to light after one of their neighbours spotted the kid. The police were informed and the mother and son were admitted to a private hospital at Kottiyam.The kid is in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Shaji, who hails from Palathara, is an autorickshaw driver at Mylapore stand. 

                                                                                               Prof. John Kurakar