Eight-year-old Shina Adegbolu, a basic three pupil in Ikotun area of Lagos caught the eye of the nurse who wanted to attend to him when he was taken for treatment at the Igando General Hospital on July 5, 2015.
The nurse knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the boy and his injuries.
Shina’s 34-year-old father, Idris, came to the hospital like every other normal parent when he took him for treatment with the complaint that the boy fell down and sustained an injury on his buttocks.
But the nurse who was operating with an investigative mind, tactically separated the boy from his father and asked about the true cause of the extensive sore that had developed on the boy’s buttocks.
Shina quietly explained that he had not been able to sit for about five days since his father gave him a violent beating with a stick for stealing.
The nurse treated the boy but rather than confront the father, she took down his address and phone number and contacted a non-governmental organisation for action on the boy’s case.
The boy’s father defensively played things down. He said, “I only beat him once because he stole N500. I don’t usually beat him and I was just angry that day. That was why I beat him. The beating did not cause the sore. It was after he could not sit down that his step-mother used warm water to treat the buttocks and a tiny wound there developed into the sore.”
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