A nine-year-old boy, Naufal of Pazhampilli house in Adimaly, was admitted to the Government Medical College, Kalamassery, in a serious condition after being allegedly tortured by his mother.
Naufal was first admitted to the Government Taluk Hospital in Adimaly with multiple injuries. Adimaly police officials said that the boy’s mother Celina had told the hospital authorities that her child had suffered monkey bites. Doctors at the taluk hospital referred the boy to the Kottayam Medical College and also alerted the police. The mother gave the slip to a police team from Adimaly, which had followed the ambulance in which the victim was taken to Kottayam. They later received information that she was in Kadavanthra, Kochi, along with her two children. A police team from Kadavanthra picked up the woman and the children. The police asked the child’s relatives to admit the boy to the General Hospital.
The police said that the boy was later referred to the Government Medical College in Kalamassery and a team from the Adimaly police station was waiting to collect Naufal’s statement. Police officials in Adimaly said that the boy’s father was serving imprisonment in a ganja case at Devikulam. Relatives of the child alleged that the mother had been torturing the child for the past two months. She has been shifted to a short stay home in the city.
A case is likely to be registered on Wednesday.
