A six year-old boy has been hospitalized at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Hospital in Kumasi after he was allegedly brutalized with a hammer by his guardian. Reasons for the abuse are sketchy but eyewitness accounts indicate the guardian was angered by the boy’s recalcitrance. An investigator with the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) office in Kumasi, Divine Adade who visited the boy in hospital told Joy News the young boy was in serious pains. Narrating the incident, the CHRAJ official said it all started when the boy's guardian was asked to append her name on a school form she had filled for him, but after doing so “the guardian became angry and used a hammer to hit his head”. She said the following day, the guardian was again angered by the failure of the little boy to gather on time the mat on which he slept. “So the guardian got angry again and used the same hammer to hit his head, the chin, the right arm, the legs and the buttocks. The places where so tender we couldn’t even touch the body.” Asked about the condition of the boy, she noted: “He is suffering, he is in pain, seriously.” Divine Adade said two days since the boy was admitted, the guardian had not bothered to visit him. She said the abuse would be reported to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit for action. Story Joy News/Myjoyonline.com