Pastor beats wife, daughters to stupor in Plateau State

One Pastor Christopher Sule has been apprehended for maltreating his daughters, aged 6 and 8, for their inability to recite what they were taught in their school in Jos, Tribune reports.
Their mother also received a dose of the treatment, for coming to their rescue. Narrating their ordeal, Mrs Rachel Christopher, who could not hold back tears, said she and her daughters had lived under constant beating and harassment.

She alleged that for the past three years, they have been in bondage and under the yoke of maltreatment by her husband who under slight provocation would beat she and the children to stupor.
Mrs Christopher stated that management of the school where the children attended, last week, noticed several lacerations on their bodies as result of severe beating over a minor issue.
The management of the school reported the incident to the National Security and Civil Defense Corp and the father was apprehended for interrogation.
Speaking on the circumstances leading to his action, Pastor Christopher Sule said he could not justify his action and confessed that he flogged his daughters more than the offence they committed.
“I don’t know what came upon me, though I have been beating them that way for the past 3 years. I always regretted my action. By nature I am temperamental, and I need deliverance,” he said. Sule, who wept profusely, however, pleaded for mercy, promising to love his children.