A 17-year-old housewife, Bara’atu Muhammad who cut off the genitals of her 23-day-old stepson, Buhari Muhammad, has explained why she did it.
Speaking with newsmen, Bara’atu confessed that she took the infant from his mother’s room where he was sleeping, to the toilet where she chopped off his penis with a kitchen knife because of the insults the boy's mother usually heaped on her.
She said I decided to do that in retaliation to insults (I’ve been receiving) from his mother. She has been insulting me. Anytime I complained to our husband, he will not take action. That was the major reason I used our kitchen knife to cut off his penis.”





























