Young Bride Opens Up On Why She Cut Off Her Stepson's Genitals

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.”

The husband, Muhammad Dauda denied that Buhari’s mother, Basira was in the habit of insulting Bara’atu, adding that the offending wife never reported Basira to him and that as far as he was concerned they were living in peace.

“I never heard them quarrelling, I never saw them fighting. My house is intact. There was no division. I treated them equally,” Dauda insisted.