Dad scalds 2-year-old twin sons (Borrowdale, Zimbabwe)

Actually, scalding is just one of dad JOHN KATEITEI's torturous acts against these little boys. And for all this, Dad just gets a suspended 18-month prison term. Typical abuser daddy indulgence.

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Dad Scalds Twin Sons
14 March 2011

A BORROWDALE man seriously injured his two-year-old twin sons by scalding them with water as punishment for soiling napkins.

John Kateitei (57) of 113 William Pollet Road was convicted for ill-treating children after a full trial.

Harare provincial magistrate Mr Munamato Mutevedzi slapped Kateitei with a wholly suspended 18-month prison term.

Mrs Hilda Kateitei, the children's mother, told the court that she tried to cover up the abuse over the past months because she wanted to save her marriage.

She said the children were now living in fear and that they could not feel comfortable whenever their father was present.

The State, led by Prosecutor Mr Innocent Chingarande, proved that sometime in April last year, Kateitei beat up his children with a stick when they cried for their parents' attention.

In October he brutally pulled the legs of the children saying their legs were too weak.

He repeatedly pulled the legs adding that children should be taught how to crawl and stand up.

He took the twins from Hilda and placed them in a standing bucket and at the same time he stretched their legs and as a result one of them fractured his right leg and the twin dislocated his knee.

This resulted in the child being admitted to Parirenyatwa Hospital for treatment, the state proved.

In November the babies soiled their napkins and Kateitei, snatched them from his wife and placed them in a sink.

He opened hot water from the geyser and resultantly one of the children suffered 9 percent severe burns on the buttocks, abdomen and right leg.

Afterwards he went to Hilda and shouted to her saying the twin babies were like plastics that burn easily.

The matter came to light when doctors at Parirenyatwa Hospital questioned her after she went for the routine check-ups and she opened up about the abuse.

Doctors advised her to lodge a report to the police, resulting in Kateitei's arrest.