Professor Tortures His Kids with Ants
Blogging Baby appears to have stepped up its coverage of bad-behaving parents lately - much to the discontent of some readers. I find that funny. I started Parents Behaving Badly while I was a co-editor for BB, specifically because some readers were fed up reading these tales. Rather than let them fade into history, I collected them here, in what has since become one of the world’s darkest exercises in negative catharsis. (Not to mention that it’ll keep some sociology student very busy someday.)
I’m glad BB is including these stories. My goal is to make PBB as comprehensive as possible. Their coverage makes it less likely that anything will slip through my net. And it would be a shame if their currently featured tale of woe and horror passed by without the offender getting all of the scorn he has coming to him. Professor Festus Oguhebe, a Nigerian native who teaches taught at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, entered a nolo contendere plea on one felony count of child abuse. Oguhebe insists that he was merely “disciplining” one of his kids when he put ants on him after the child returned home with bad grades.
I’m not going to chalk this up to “cultural differences”. That would be an insult to Nigerians, most of whom I’m sure know better than to subject their kids to hundreds of ant-bites. There are, ahem, better ways to propel them toward “academic excellence”. The only thing that this kind of abuse guarantees is that you’ll wake up one night to find your son hovering over your bed, with a loaded revolver pointed at your face. You’d have a hard time empaneling a jury willing to convict that kid.
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7 opinions for Professor Tortures His Kids with Ants
Mercurial Georgia
Oct 23, 2006 at 2:26 pm
GAWDS.
I’m not so much enraged about the antbites as I am about the hot pepper sauce in eyes, that could have blinded the kid! I’m enraged about the former too, but WTF?
Where was the mother? Where were the neighbours? I hope this fuck gets fucked up the ass with an opened bottle of hot sauce.
The Zero Boss
Oct 23, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Ew, missed that part. Yeah, the guy’s a real winner.
Casey Cupcakes
Oct 24, 2006 at 12:00 pm
I love that the guy’s name is Fetus.
The Zero Boss
Oct 24, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Actually it’s “Festus”. That was a typo. Too bad - it WOULD have been ironic.
nne
Nov 3, 2006 at 4:04 pm
actually, the mother (a child bride i hear) left one can only imagine the type of abuse she had to go through too. and of course, since he is professor who would probably make more money than she, he has custody of their six kids….
uche
Nov 22, 2006 at 10:52 am
Amazing. I am Ibo, from the same ethnic society as festus and we do not treat our children anywhere close to what he did to his kid. In as much as discipline is a major issue in nigeria, what festus had done would definitely lead to His arrest but he wouldnt be sentenced in Nigeria-I think. However he would be cautioned. Well this is for other Nigerians in the states to learn. If they want to act like monkeys. They should go and live in their villages.Shame
Kevin
Apr 18, 2007 at 11:51 am
I was a student at Alcoen State University in 92 and he was my Business Development instructor.
If I remember correctly, there was some business back then where one of his children was born with an extra digit and he saw fit to remove it with a knife. He just went into the kitchen and took a knife out and cut off this baby’s extra finger. He was brought up on charges then!
It’s all very surprising that this has gone on as long as it did.
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