Dad beat son to death: Dubai Court told

A Nigerian father is accused of premeditatedly killing his 12-year-old son after beating him severely, causing internal bleeding.

The boy died before he was moved to hospital, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

The Dubai Prosecution asked the court to implement the stiffest penalty against the 37-year-old father ZA.

The accused brought his son to Dubai a year ago.

The father attempted to enroll his son in a school in Dubai, but the school refused to take the boy because he could not cope.

The father, in August 2014, asked one of the school teachers to give his son private lessons and she did.

“I started teaching the boy in his accommodation. The first 15 days, I did not notice anything strange.

“However, after that, I started noticing some bruises and scratches on different areas of his body, so I asked him about the cause. I noticed that the boy was scared of his father,” 52-year-old Pakistani teacher, GI, told investigators.

One day, the teacher noticed a swelling on the boy’s face, and again asked him about the cause and he answered that his father beats him up.

The teacher confronted the father, who denied the accusation.

On another day, the boy asked the teacher to help him do homework for a subject that she does not teach.

“He begged me to help him solve a Math equation and told me that if he does not, his father will beat him up,” testified the teacher.

After a month, the father stopped the private tuition.

Then, at a school meeting, the issue of the student was discussed and the father was summoned by the supervisor.

The father justified the severe action against his son saying that he wants him to excel in his studies and that he spends all his money on his education.

“A day before the incident, I saw the father forcing his son’s head into the water in the building’s swimming pool, while the boy was screaming for help and asking his father to leave him alone.

“I rushed to them and asked the father why he is doing that and he answered that he is teaching his son how to swim.

“I rushed to another watchman who knows the father since he lived in the building to check the situation.

“The father who looked very angry with his son, answered my co-worker with the same answer. He did that for about 15 minutes,” said Mohammed Ali, 37, Indian watchman.

The watchman told investigators that most of the time, the father accompanied his son to the swimming pool when nobody else was there.

The father admitted before the police that he used to beat up his son with a wooden stick, shoes or slippers, or by punching him and kicking him.

On April 18, the father received an email from the school about his son’s low performance.

“I punished him and slapped him in the face. I raged in anger and beat him badly and then asked him to do his homework.

“He did not do that and started vomiting and told me that he feels severe pain in his stomach. I gave him some milk and asked him to continue doing his homework. He did not do that and resumed vomiting,” the father told the policeman.

“While I was in the kitchen, I heard a crash. It was my son falling on the floor. I took him to the bathroom and then asked him to clean the dirt he made,” the father said.

Again in the bathroom, the boy fell to the floor, so the father took him to the hospital.

The record notes that the father took his son to hospital at around 10.30pm and reached the hospital at around midnight.

When the boy arrived to the hospital, he was announced dead by the emergency doctor.

Police examined the crime scene and reported traces of blood and vomit all over the room.

Police also found an iPad on a table seemed that was used by the boy.

On the iPad search engine, the boy sought help saying online: “Help, I got hit on my stomach.”

Forensic reports that the boy sustained eternal bleeding and that he could have been rescued if medical treatment was provided instantly.

Forensics also reported that the boy had been sodomised and that he sustained injuries in that area from a recent act that could have been caused by a stick.

The court will reconvene on November 22.

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