Shocking: Man Kills His Children As Sacrifice To Dead Father

A 35-year-old man identified as Thomas Matthew has been reportedly arrested for allegedly strangling his two children to death in Abuja.

Reports gathered that the man had previously killed his 2-month-old son and on October 7th, 2016, he also strangled his four-month-old daughter, Mary Matthew to death.

Narrating what led him to perpetrate the evil act, he said that his late father who initiated him into an occult group appeared to him and commanded him to sacrifice his children to him on different occasions.

Confirming the reports to newsmen,  the Commissioner of Police, of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Mr. Mohammed Mustafa said that the suspect was apprehended after his wife made a report at the Police station that he had killed their baby.

The wife who is deaf and dumb with the help of a sign language expert told newsmen that “I didn’t know that my husband is a cultist.”

When interrogated, Matthew said: “I got married to my wife, Bola, and we were blessed with three kids. My father is a cultist and he initiated me into the occult. My father asked me to offer the children as sacrifice and mark of honour to him, promising he would make me become rich.

Education / Schools & Students
 October 30, 2016 Olamide Stanley
Shocking: Man Kills His Children As Sacrifice To Dead Father


A 35-year-old man identified as Thomas Matthew has been reportedly arrested for allegedly strangling his two children to death in Abuja.

Reports gathered that the man had previously killed his 2-month-old son and on October 7th, 2016, he also strangled his four-month-old daughter, Mary Matthew to death.

Narrating what led him to perpetrate the evil act, he said that his late father who initiated him into an occult group appeared to him and commanded him to sacrifice his children to him on different occasions.

Confirming the reports to newsmen,  the Commissioner of Police, of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Mr. Mohammed Mustafa said that the suspect was apprehended after his wife made a report at the Police station that he had killed their baby.

The wife who is deaf and dumb with the help of a sign language expert told newsmen that “I didn’t know that my husband is a cultist.”

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When interrogated, Matthew said: “I got married to my wife, Bola, and we were blessed with three kids. My father is a cultist and he initiated me into the occult. My father asked me to offer the children as sacrifice and mark of honour to him, promising he would make me become rich.

“It was a covenant that nobody knew, even my wife. My father gave me conditions that if anybody got to know or I revealed the covenant, that the covenant would be destroyed. From the time I had my first child, my father began disturbing me to offer my child to him as a sacrifice.

“I tried to kill my first child by strangling, but my wife caught me and reported to the police and her mother came to take the child away from the house. He has been staying with her in Mararaba, Nasarawa State.

“Later my father appeared to me after I had my second son, John, who became sick. I strangled him to death in 2015. On October 7, 2016, my father appeared to me again that I should kill my only daughter. I was with my wife and then I started beating her and she ran away to my elder sister’s house and I locked the door and strangulated my four-month-old baby girl and she died.

“I locked the entrance of the house and ran away. It was the youth in my area that arrested me and handed me over to the police. I wanted to kill my younger brother according to my father’s instruction. My father is still alive and he is in the village in Benue State.”

The police commissioner who confirmed the incident to newsmen stated that investigation is ongoing and the suspect would be charged to court soon.