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The Tesano Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested a 48-year-old man for whipping his 4-year-old child with a wire. This was after it was established by police that the suspect, Ibrahim Yakubu, always subjected his son to such cruel treatment at the least provocation. The suspect�s last beating of the child was on March 29, 2012, causing various degrees of lacerations and bleeding on the face, hands, and back of the child. There were also several marks of old wounds all over the body of the victim. Luck eluded the suspect when a neighbour who could not stand the constant molestation of the child reported him to the Tesano police around 6pm that fateful day. The suspect is currently in police custody awaiting trial. Narrating the story to DAILY GUIDE, ASP Experanza Ayesu-Danso, the Divisional DOVVSU Officer, said the suspect, according to information, always whipped the child with the cable at the least provocation. At times, he also hit the child with anything that he could lay his hands on. Neigbours had warned him several times to stop molesting the child but he did not listen. The suspect was said to have whipped the child with the cable mercilessly on that day after he returned to see the child dirty. Meanwhile, the mother of the child, according to information, is living in Swedru. It is believed that the mother abandoned him. The boy, who has not yet been sent to school, lives with the father at Adumasi Amanasam, near Accra. ASP Ayesu-Danso said the father would be prosecuted after investigations were complete. The child has been sent to the Police Hospital for treatment after which he will be taken to the Department of Social Welfare. ASP Ayesu-Danso urged neigbours to report any of such mistreatment meted out to children by their parents to the police.