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The Weeping Lecturer

In the morning, the heavens opened and it began to rain. Bella grabbed her umbrella to get to school, as she walked out of the hostel the first

Domestic violence

"Why would a responsible  man resort to raping his own wife?  The next time we receive such complain from our sister..." They threatened.
They roared in an unpleasant and angry tone at him that the whole place
quacked. Ononeme was actually in panic that he almost wet on his pant.

The truth of the matter was that, he said that Susan was barbaric and naive. To him, beating Susan
was a better option. Once he had beaten her seeing her hurt and sobbed like a little tot gave him so much joy, he actually derived pleasure in beating her. Funnily, after hitting her he would sit and watch
her weeping and wailing at times mimicked her.

Early morning, she woke up very hot and she went to wash her body after bathing her baby. As she came out from the bathroom putting on same bathroom slipper.
"Can't you see, you wet everywhere," he started hitting her. You're  primitive, you belong to the stone age. I always long to brush you up but you will rather prefer to act foolishly," he continued beating her. "Are you a goat? How many times have I told you not to put on bathroom slipper into my lush parlor?  He raised his hand to hit her again before she ran out straight to her cousins' house.

Susan abandoned her baby, even when her cousins asked her to go and bring her baby she refused. She starved little Emman for two days. She never bothered on how her son would survive. She left her heart at the back, her only thought was how to go back to her mother in the village.

Silas and Ikonne were her cousins but they loved her like their own kid sister. They never joked with her. Ononeme had waited for her return till he got tired. It was on the fourth day that Ononeme begged on his elder brother, Eze to intercede on his behalf. Eze agreed after apportioning blame on him.

Eze went to Silas' house with the company of Jonah their half brother. They seemed to be very sure that Susan was at Silas' house because that had been the only place she always ran to for refuge each time they had misunderstanding. Once they entered the house it was as if Silas and Ikonne were prepared for them. Silas bounced on Eze, Jonah managed to escape and left them to practice their acrobatic on Eze.

Unfortunately, Silas used his military boot on Eze's pennis and immediately, Jonah felt sudden darkness in his eyes and began to hallucinate. Then, he started imagining things like twinkling stars falling out of his eyes. He experienced hell that day as he fainted. The effect of the boot reacted on him like an overdose of barbiturates.  

  • Question: Domestic violence is not good but if you were Susan would you have abandoned your baby?

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  1. I totally agree with this,domestic violence have to stop.

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