An Afghan boy claims that his father has been torturing him with hammer, knife, screwdriver and hot spoon for the last one year in northern Faryab province.
The 10-year-old, identified as Fazl Ahmad, has been forced out of the home by his father, who is said to be a drug addict, the provincial governor’s office said.
His father, identified as Sakhi, had divorced Ahmad’s mother one year ago and since then he has been repeatedly torturing her children to please her second wife.
Ahmad said that his father used to hit him in the head with a hammer and spike and stab his body with screwdriver and knife. The crying boy said that he was being tortured by a hot spoon.
According to Ahmad, his younger sister was also being tortured by their father.
The father reportedly had been imprisoned for three months for beating his first wife.