Exactly how far ought to discipline go for a youngster?

The features are unsparing! They recount the stories of how individuals rebuff their kids and wards — particularly the underage ones — for any wrongdoing, extending from the kid's powerlessness to appropriately do a direction, to burglary, disappointment in exams, and so on.

The disciplines required here are not just stunning, they imperil the casualties' lives, while they additionally uncover the brutes in numerous guardians or watchmen.

Case Number 1: The spouse of one Mr. Odia Okoro reported him to the police when she supposedly got him putting ground pepper in his 10-year-old little girl's private part. The poor youngster's offense? She had fizzled an examination!

At some other time, the same father had fixing the tyke to the roof fan since she neglected to present his lotto ticket to the lottery operator! A Lagos Magistrates' Court is at present taking care of the case.

Case Number 2: A 40-year-old broker, one Mrs. Deborah Gabriel, brutalized her housemaid, eight-year-old Glory Ugbon, and after that place pepper in the young lady's eyes and private part. This was Deborah's discipline for Glory's claimed robbery of a plate of rice. The poor young lady portrays that she was conveyed to Lagos from Akwa Ibom State to live with Deborah, who had guaranteed yet neglected to place her in school.

Since her landing in Deborah's family, be that as it may, Glory has endured different types of abuse, going from extreme beating, to lack of sleep and yearning.

Here's Glory's confirmation about her affliction, "The lady (Deborah) is not identified with us. I work at home constantly, yet some of the time when she is not content with me, she beats me till I can't walk, and leaves scars everywhere on my body."

Deborah is as of now being held at Aguda Police Division in Surulere and would soon be charged to court; while arrangements are being made to return Glory to her folks in Akwa Ibom State.

Questions

· How far would it be advisable for anyone to go in rebuffing a minor?

· Why would it be advisable for anyone to exact damage on a tyke's private part?

· In Nigeria, ambushing the private part is a typical type of discipline for females by and large; and it's finished by both male and female alike. Does that mean we are so scornful of the female body that the main way we can say so is to damage a lady's private part as discipline?

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