Mother Of 2 Arrested For Cutting 11-Year-Old Boy With Razor Blade
Shade Adelowo, a 31-year-old mother of two, is cooling her feet in police custody for using razor blade to cut the body of a 11-year-old boy who is the son of her neighbour.
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, on Sunday, arrested the woman who inflicted serious body injuries on the young boy, Kehinde Ojo, for allegedly stealing N3,000 from her purse.
According to a release by the Ogun Police PPRO, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect, who resides at Giwa Oke Aro area of Agbado, was arrested following a report lodged at Agbado Divisional Police Headquarters by the victim’s mother.
The mother of the victim said the suspect accused her son who used to stay with her whenever she is not around of stealing the money from her purse, consequent upon which she used razor blade to inflict serious injuries all over his body.
Consequent upon the report, the DPO, Agbado Division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, Shade Adelowo claimed that the victim stole N3,000 from her purse and that she didn’t know what come over her that made her to inflict such grievous injuries on the boy.
She further claimed that she has been taking care of the boy and his twin brother for quite some time now, and that what happened on that fateful day is devil’s handwork.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the mother of the victim has been abandoned by her husband who left her with three children and vanished into the thin air.
The woman has been engaging in menial jobs to take care of the three children, and whenever she is going out for work, she will take the children to the suspect who happened to be her neighbor.
Kehinde’s mother stated further that she surprised when she saw what the suspect did to her son, because she has been very good to her in the past.
The release stated that the young victim has been taken to the hospital for medical attention and he is said to be responding to treatment.
The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
