26
Oct
The authorities in Nigeria’s Imo state have been asked to arrest a man who allegedly assaulted and broke the arm of his two-month-old baby. The 31-year-old man is reported to have assaulted his baby with a plastic cloth hanger for disturbing his sleep. His wife told the BBC that the man took her phone and locked her and the baby in a room and threatened her not to tell the neighbours. She finally escaped two days later and took her baby to a hospital where doctors amputated the arm. Dr Chiedozie Mbalewe who treated the baby told the BBC that…