A father of four has been arrested for punishing his children, including two 2-year-old girls, by burning their ears with a heated spoon, cops said Wednesday.
Abidina Morba, 39, of Brooklyn, faces multiple counts of assaulting a child under 11 and acting in a manner injurious to a child after allegedly scalding his kids, who also include a 10-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, earlier this month. In each case, he heated a spoon on the stove and used it to burn his children, police sources said.
A teacher saw a burn mark on one of the older kids and told school administrators, who called cops. The name of the school was not disclosed.
Members of the NYPD’s Brooklyn Special Victims Unit arrested Morba on Monday and he admitted to administering the scaldings, sources said.
The punishment is a common one in Morba’s native Mali, according to cop sources.
“That’s how they do things there, apparently,” said a detective with knowledge of the case.