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According to the person who posted the gory photo on social media, the woman, herself a mother, has the habit of beating the boy who is her sister's son, mercilessly over every little infraction but she took it overboard in her bid to deter him from stealing.

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After beating him, she decided to go a step further by burning his hands, all in a bid to make stealing detestable to him.

But has she not taken the discipline too far?